Gurugram man kills daughter, hangs self

Our Correspondent

Gurugram, January 22

A Sector-37 resident committed suicide after strangulating his 10-year-old daughter to death. He was separated from his wife and his two children lived with him. An FIR has been registered at the Sector 37 police station.

The incident took place on Tuesday morning when the man allegedly drunk strangulated his daughter and hung himself in the same room.

His 12-year-old son who was sleeping woke up in the morning and informed his mother and the police was called.

The postmortem report of the girl revealed that she was strangulated to death, an FIR has been registered.

According to the police, the deceased is identified as Moti Lal (42) and his daughter Khushi (10), natives of Nepal. The deceased was living in a rented room near Sector 37 along with his son Sachin and the daughter.

Amrita, wife of deceased Moti Lal, said in her complaint that she had got married to Moti Lal in 2007. Her husband was alcoholic and thrashed her repeatedly. It was around 3 years ago when she left the home of her husband and started living separately in Sirhaul village.

“Both the children were living with him. It was on Tuesday morning when my son Sachin called me and told about the incident. I reached the spot and informed the police ”, the wife of the deceased told the police.

An FIR of murder has been registered against the deceased at the Sector 37 police station.

“The postmortem report of girl revealed that she was killed after being strangulated by her father. We are investigating all angles and bodies were handed over to the family after the postmortem”, said inspector Shailender Singh, SHO of the Sector 37 police station.