Retired army man kills his daughter-in-law, 3 of tenant’s family in Gurugram stabbing spree
A retired army subedar allegedly murdered four people, including his daughterin-law, with a knife used to prune plants early on Tuesday morning, and later walked into a police station with the murder weapon to confess his crime.
The other three victims were the tenant Krishan Tiwari, 45, his wife, Anamika Tiwari, 35, and the couple’s nine-year-old daughter. They all suffered multiple stab wounds. The couple’s younger daughter, a three-yearold, survived the attack and is battling for life in hospital, police said. According to investigators, the accused, Rao Rai Singh, suspected that his daughter-inlaw, 40-year-old Sunita Yadav,
was in a relationship with Krishan Tiwari.
DCP Deepak Saharan said the four murders took place between 2.30am and 4am on Tuesday. “Prima facie, evidence suggests the suspect, Rao Rai Singh Yadav, 59, a retired subedar of the Indian Army, bolted all the doors of the house and murdered four people with a long knife used for pruning garden plants, when the victims were sleeping on different floors of the building,” Saharan said.
Yadav surrendered at the Rajendra Park police station around 6am, and told the police that he has murdered four people in his house. A team station reached the spot and recovered the bodies around 7am.
The relatives of the deceased have been informed and a postmortem examination was conducted by a board doctors on Tuesday evening, Saharan said. The report was still awaited.
“First, he murdered Sunita Yadav, who was sleeping on the first floor, and then went to the second floor and killed three tenants with the weapon. A minor daughter of the tenant who was also attacked, survived,” assistant commissioner of police (crime) Preet Pal Sangwan said.