Grocery shop owner, wife and minor son killed in Kanpur

KANPUR: A grocery shop owner, his wife and their minor son were bludgeoned to death in Uchwaa area of Fazalganj here on Saturday morning.
The assailants, after executing the killings, tied all the three bodies with a rope, covered them with a blanket and fled with the grocery owner’s two-wheeler.
Police identified the deceased as Prem Kishore (45), his wife Gita (39) and their son Naitik (12).
Prem Kishore, who used to run a grocery shop from his house, lived with his wife Gita and son Naitik. His two elder children, born to his first wife, live with his elder brother Raj Kishore, a resident of Gumti. Raj Kishore is a driver of a senior judicial officer.
At around 6 am on Saturday, Raj Kishore received a call from his neighbor, who told him that the house was locked from outside and consignment of milk was lying outside the shop, and his brother Prem Kishore was not answering his phone calls. Raj Kishore rushed to the spot with relatives who broke open the locks. On entering the house, they discovered the bodies of his brother Prem Kishore, his wife Gita and their son Naitik lying in a pool of blood. All the three dead bodies were tied with a rope and covered with blankets. The face of the child was found to be tied with a polythene.
On coming across a ghastly crime scene, Raj Kishore raised an alarm and alerted Prem Kishore’s neighbours and the police that the blood-soaked bodies of his brother, his wife and son were lying inside the house.
Immediately, a police team of Fazalganj police station along with a forensic team and a dog squad arrived at the spot.
After getting information about the triple murder, DCP (headquarters-South) Sanjeev Tyagi and DCP (crime) Salman Taj Patil also reached the spot.
As soon as the news of triple murder spread in the area, a large crowd gathered at the spot.
According to the investigators it seems the assailants have tried to give the incident a colour of robbery. It is a meticulously planned incident, and the reason of the murder is being ascertained, they said.
“The injury marks on the victims’ bodies suggested that they were hit brutally with a heavy object which resulted in their death,” said DCP (headquarters) Sanjiv Tyagi.
Meanwhile, tense moments prevailed when after the investigation was over, the police tried to dispatch the bodies to the mortuary for the post-mortem examination.
Brother of deceased Raj Kishore and his relatives created a ruckus and accused the cops of removing the bodies without showing them.
Senior police officials including DCP (headquarters) Sanjeev Tyagi and DCP (crime) Salman Taj Patil tried to pacify them, but they remained adamant to their demand.
After efforts of half-an-hour, police removed the kin from the road. Later, the close family members of the deceased were sent to the post-mortem house by the police.
Talking to the media, Raj Kishore alleged that the police acted in a very irresponsible manner. “Neither they allowed to visit us on the spot nor showed the condition of the dead bodies that how my brother and his family were killed”, Raj Kishore said.
Hailing from Baijnath Kheda in Unnao district, Prem Kishore had married Gita, who was his second wife.
More than a decade ago, his first wife Lalita had died in a road accident leaving behind two children. After her death Prem Kishore married Gita to look after his five-year-old son Puneet and three-year-old daughter Preeti from his first wife. After marrying Prem Kishore, Gita gave birth to his son Naitik.