Hyderabad, Apr 11: Enraged over a property dispute, a doctor allegedly set afire his son's family, including his nine-year-old daughter, when they were asleep, police said today. The doctor, a retired district medical and health officer, poured kerosene and set afire his son's wife, nine-year-old daughter and eighteen-year-old sister in law who died on the spot last night while the son is battling for life at the hospital in Nirmal town of Adilabad district, police said. The doctor was injured as he prevented the family from escaping the inferno.
The father was enraged with his son over a long-pending property dispute, police said. A case of murder has been registered against the doctor who was arrested.

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