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Home Guard Kills Wife, Daughter Over Relationship Dispute
9 Oct
Summary
- Home Guard allegedly strangled wife and daughter to death.
- Accused reported the murders to the police himself.
- Family dispute cited daughter's personal life as motive.
In a disturbing incident in Lucknow's Krishna Nagar locality, a 56-year-old Home Guard member, Ravindra Shankar Gupta, is accused of murdering his wife and 32-year-old daughter. The victims, Shyam Dulari and Pooja Sahu, were allegedly strangled to death using a mobile phone charging cable on Friday morning.
Gupta himself alerted the police to the double homicide, leading to his immediate arrest. Investigators are probing the motive behind the killings, with preliminary information suggesting Gupta was unhappy with his daughter's personal life and relationships.
Sources indicate that the wife's support for their daughter's choices may have exacerbated tensions within the family. The couple's elder daughter has lodged a formal complaint, and both bodies have been sent for forensic examination.
