Kanpur murder case: Twin daughters killed by father

The killing of the twin daughters happened when the accused’s wife and their 6-year-old son were in the next room.

In a shocking incident in Kanpur, a father allegedly killed his twin daughters. They were a family of five, with twin daughters, a son, and his wife. While he killed his daughters, his wife and 6-year-old son were in the next room. The accused, ShashiRanjan Mishra, murdered his twin daughters and called the police at 4.30 am to report the crime.

Father allegedly kills twin daughters in Kanpur.

In Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur, a usual evening for a family of five turned into mayhem. The family had dinner and went to their rooms to sleep. Mother and 6-year-old son slept in one room, while the twin daughters, 11, went to sleep in another room. In the morning, the mother received the shock of her life when the cops turned up at the door of their Kidwai Nagar apartment. While she slept peacefully with her son in one room, her husband had murdered their daughters by slitting their throats in another room. After brutally slaughtering the children, the man, 45-year-old ShashiRanjan Mishra, dialled the police helpline number to report the crime.

Chilling details of the case emerge.

Kanpur’s deputy commissioner of police (South) DeependraNath Chaudhary said, “We received a call on 112 at around 4.30 am from the accused himself,” adding that the motive is yet not known. The chilling details of the case emerged, with the accused’s wife, Reshma, saying that the family had dinner together before the father took the children to his room and spoke on the phone for a long time. Watching the CCTV feed from outside, she saw him take one of his daughters to the bathroom around 2.30 am, return, and switch off the light. She went to sleep and was unaware of the killings until morning. Apparently, it all happened within two hours: Reshma saw him take one of the daughters to the washroom on the CCTV feed at 2:30 am, and then the police received the call at 4:30 am.

The inconsolable mother, Reshma from Bengal’s Siliguri, wants her husband to be hanged for murdering his daughters. Police said Mishra confessed to mixing sleeping pills into the children’s food, rendering them unconscious before strangling them and later slitting their throats with a cleaver he had purchased a day earlier, according to PTI. According to the police investigating the case, Mishra had grown increasingly unstable after his mother’s death a few months ago. He drank, took sleeping pills, and had been battling depression, especially after his mother’s death.