NEW DELHI: Four members of a family were stabbed to death while there were asleep in their house in the Palam area. According to reports, two sisters, their father and their grandmother are among the deceased. Though the motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained, the police have arrested the main accused. The accused, a 25-year-old drug addict, has been identified as Keshav. He had returned from a rehabilitation centre a few days ago, the police said. He was reportedly angry over being scolded for his drug addiction and he murdered his parents, sister and grandmother in a fit of rage, the police added.


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The deceased have been identified as Dinesh Kumar (42), his wife Darshan Saini (40), mother Deewano Devi (75) and daughter Urvashi (22).


On Tuesday, a 35-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his wife in northeast Delhi's Harsh Vihar area. According to police, the couple had accumulated heavy debts and had had a fight before the killing took place. On Sunday around 8.10 AM, police received a call from a man who said he had killed his wife, they said.


When police went to the couple's Sushila Garden house, they found a woman, later identified as Archana, lying unconscious on the floor inside a room in their second-floor flat. She was rushed to a hospital where she was declared dead, a senior police officer said. She was 30.


Yogesh Kumar, Archana's husband, who was in the house, was apprehended, police said.


He was booked for murder at Harsh Vihar Police Station and arrested, they said. The preliminary investigation has revealed that the family had borrowed money from different sources. On Sunday they had a heated row which culminated in Yogesh strangling Archana to death, the officer said.