A 19-year-old engineering student allegedly murdered his parents and younger sister at their house in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj on Wednesday for opposing his lifestyle and scolding him to focus on studies.
The police said they received a call around 5 a.m. about a robbery at a house in Kishangarh. A police team reached the spot and found three bodies of a family lying in two rooms of a flat. The bodies were sent for post-mortem at AIIMS.
Mithilesh Verma, 42, his wife Siya, 42, and their 14-year-old daughter Neha were found dead in the first floor of a house in Kishangarh. The bodies had multiple stab wounds.
Their 19-year-old son Suraj Verma alias Sarnam was found with minor injuries.
He claimed that his parents and sister were murdered during a robbery bid.
During investigation, Suraj told the police that two men had entered his house and attacked the family members. He said his mother shielded him during the attack. After killing the family members, the attackers fled through the balcony, Suraj told the police.
The knife used in the crime was recovered from the house.
The police said that suspicion fell on Suraj when a neighbour, who had entered the house after the accused alerted neighbours about the incident, said he had entered the flat from the balcony and found the bodies. The flat was locked from the inside and the main door on the ground floor was also locked, said the police.
CCTV footage
“The only exit point was the balcony and no CCTVs in the area recorded entry or exit of any person during that time. And in the brutal attack on his family members, Suraj remained unhurt,” said a police official.
On sustained interrogation, Suraj broke down and confessed to killing his parents and sister.
He said that he bought a knife for ₹200 from Mehrauli on Tuesday.
At 3 a.m. he woke up and first stabbed his father, said the police. While the accused was stabbing his father, his mother woke up and witnessed the incident, so, he killed her too.
The commotion had woken up Suraj’s sister who tried to protect her mother.
The police said that Suraj then attacked Neha also.
“When his sister was lying injured on the floor and crying, he also cried but he picked up the knife again and stabbed her multiple times till she died,” said a police officer. “We have arrested Suraj under murder charges,” said Devendra Arya, DCP (South West).
Mithilesh, from Kannauj in UP, was a civil contractor. He had bought a four-storey house in Kishangarh in 2016. He was the general secretary of the Delhi State Lodhi-Rajput Sabha.
