Man kills three children to seek revenge

RAIPUR: Five children paid the pricefor adult passions. Three were brutally killed, two have been abandoned.The tragedy struck a village near Ratanpur in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district.40 year old Manoj Suryavanshi lured hisneighbour's three children to the fields, flung them on the ground, thenstrangulated them to death. All because their uncle had eloped with hiswife.The three siblings -- Vijay, aged 5, Sakshi, aged 7 and Ajay,aged 9 -- were missing since Friday noon, when they did not return home fromschool. "Someone had spotted them with their neighbour Manoj. Whenwe looked for him, he was missing too. We finally traced him on Saturdayevening. After several hours of interrogation, he confessed to killing thechildren, and led us to the field where he had dumped their bodies," said AjayYadav, Superintendent of police, Bilaspur. The bodies have injurieson the head and around the neck. The police believes the children died due tostrangulation. A daily wage worker, Manoj had been hostile towardshis neighbour Shivlal Dhiwar ever since his wife eloped with Dhiwar's brother acouple of weeks ago."He called up Dhiwar and threatened revenge. Hesaid his children were suffering ever since his wife had run away," said Yadav.Manoj has two daughters, aged 3 and 5. His gruesome crime has onlyworsened their suffering."Since there is no one to look after them,we will thinking of sending the girls to a children's home," said Yadav.