Family murders woman, her cousin in hate crime, calls up cops to confess

NEW DELHI: In a familial hate crime incident, a 46-year-old man, along with his 20-year-old son, killed his 22-year-old daughter and a 35-year-old cousin, over suspicion that the two were in a relationship, on Tuesday evening in Delhi’s Bhajanpura, police said.

According to the sequence of events shared by police, the father first tied up his daughter’s limbs with her chunni, slit the throat of his cousin, and then attacked his daughter with the knife, killing them both. The deceased were identified as

Shaina Qureshi, and Danish Khan, and the accused as Mohd Shahid and his son Kudush Qureshi.

The father and daughter first started fighting when Shahid caught Shaina speaking to Khan on the phone. Shahid and Kudush scolded Shaina and asked her to stop talking to Danish, but she refused to do so. Shaina had come into contact with Danish when he stayed at their home for a few weeks, police said, adding that they were both unmarried.

“All the family members lived in the same house. A day or two ago, Shaina was talking to Khan over the phone when her father

Mohd Shahid caught them. He scolded Shaina and asked her to stop talking to her uncle. As she refused, Shahid planned to kill both Shaina and Danish,” a police officer said.

The incident took place around 4.30pm, when Shahid and Kudush called Danish and Shaina to a room on the pretext of discussing their calls and attacked them with a knife.

Joy N Tirkey, deputy commissioner of police (northeast), said: “The accused and the deceased are fruit sellers. Shahid suspected his daughter of having an illicit relationship with her uncle. He and his son first tied up Shaina by her limbs.

The duo slit Khan’s throat with a fruit knife. They then slit Shain’s throat.”

At 4.40pm, Kudush called the police and informed them that he and his father killed his sister and uncle in a fit of rage. “They told us that they wanted to surrender. A team rushed to the spot and found the young woman with a deep wound to her neck. Her hands and feet were tied with a chunni and lungi. Her uncle’s body was lying next to hers. He too had a deep wound on the neck,” Tirkey said.

During questioning, Shahid said he was thought Shaina and Danish might elope.