Chandigarh: Wife, kids found murdered, man near railway tracks

CHANDIGARH: A woman, her daughter and son were found murdered with their throats slits with a sharp-edged weapon at their house in Modern Housing Complex, Manimajra, early on Thursday. The woman’s husband, who later succumbed at PGI, was found critically injured near the railway tracks at Mansa Devi underbridge hours before.
Police said the deceased were identified as Sunita Arora, alias Sarita, 45, her husband Surinder Arora, alias Sanjay, their daughter Ratna Khandpur, alias Saanchi Arora, 22, and son Arjun Arora, 15.
Karambir, a business associate of Surinder, said he had received information from PGI that Surinder had met with an accident and was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition. Karambir reached PGI and called up on the mobile phone of Sunita to inform her. When Sunita did not answer the phone, Karambir went to their house and found the main gate locked from outside and doors of house half open.
With the help of torchlight, Karambir saw blood inside the house and informed the police around 1am. Cops from Manimajra police station patrolling in the area reached the spot in a few minutes and broke the lock.
On finding Sunita, Ratna and Arjun murdered, cops registered a case under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC against unidentified persons and recorded the statement of Karambir.
SP (city) Vineet Kumar, DSP (east division) Dilsher Singh and the Manimajra SHO also reached the spot.
A CFSL team, photographers and dog squad were also called. Police have collected all the scientific evidence, along with footages of CCTVs installed near the house, and sent bodies for post-mortem.
Police said they have not recovered any weapon from the crime scene.
Cops said Surinder was found injured near Mansa Devi underbridge around 11.30pm Wednesday. The Government Railway Police (GRP) rushed him to Panchkula Sector 6 civil hospital. Due to his critical condition, he was referred to PGI. “He has sustained blunt injuries on the right side of head and other body parts, as he may have been hit by a train,” said a cop.
Police said Sunita’s body was found in the bedroom and her son Arjun’s in another room. Ratna was lying on the floor in the drawing room.
Police told that the murderer slit throats of all the three with a sharp-edge weapon. However, he hit Ratna on her head with an iron rod before slitting her throat.
Police suspected that the three were murdered in daytime. As per preliminary investigation, the accused first killed Sunita, then Arjun around 2.30pm — as he was found in school uniform— and at last Ratna, a law student who reaches home from Chandigarh University around 4pm.
Cops said Arjun was studying in Class X in a private school in Panchkula and Ratna, a law student, was in her fifth semester.
Surinder had bought the house in Manimajra around two years ago. Earlier, he and his family lived with his parents and brother in Sector 9, Panchkula. He is the second of five brothers. His two brothers live in Chandigarh, one in Kharar and one in Panchkula. Arora runs Krishna Sweets in Sector 9, Panchkula, with Karambir, the police said.
Verifying authenticity of suicide note: Police
Sources in the police department said a suicide note, purportedly written by Surinder, was recovered from the spot. “In it, he confesses to have jumped before a train after murdering his wife, daughter and son,” they added. Police, however, said they were verifying the handwriting and the authenticity of the recovered suicide note.