Youth held for murdering 3 of family

A youth was arrested from Haryana's Rewari district for the murder of three members of a family, police said on Wednesday.

Suresh Kumar (25), a resident of Khod village near Pataudi, 28 km from here, was arrested on a tip-off. A court remanded him in police custody for four days.

The victims -- Phoolwati (62), her son Manish (28) and Manish's wife Pinky (24) -- from Brijpura village near Pataudi were found dead in their house on August 29, police said.

Pinky was found hanging from a ceiling fan.

The couple's one-year-old daughter Charu was lying on the floor with a head injury. She later died in a hospital.

 

Police had formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the crime.

--IANS

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