Man Doubting Wife's Fidelity Murders Minor Son, Daughter

A father in India brutally murdered his nine-year-old son and five-year-old daughter following an infidelity dispute with his wife.

The shocking double-murder incident happened Thursday, May 20, within the Mokama police station limits of rural Patna.

The suspect, Kamal Nayan alias Chandan, and his wife lived in Kanhaipur village with their two children. The woman and the children were not publically identified by the police.

The couple reportedly had marital issues. The suspect who doubted his wife’s fidelity often engaged in fights with her, police officials said.

On Thursday, one such altercation between the couple escalated and led to the gruesome crime.

Chandan, who police said was in an inebriated state, had an argument with his wife. Following the fight, the woman, in a fit of rage, stormed off to her parents’ house leaving the boy and girl in their father’s care.

On Friday morning, a relative visited the family’s home and found the children lying in a pool of blood. The relative immediately alerted the police.

Emergency services responded to the home and located the victims. Both children were pronounced dead at the scene.

According to police, the crime occurred in the early hours of Friday. The suspect murdered his son and daughter by slitting their throats with a sharp-edged weapon, police said.

"Based on our investigation till now, Chandan committed the crime suspecting that they were his illegitimate children," Rural SP (Patna) Kantesh Mishra said.

The suspect was arrested and charged under section 302 (Murder) of the Indian Penal Code.

Meanwhile, the bodies of the boy and girl were transported to a medical examiner's office for an autopsy. The results are being awaited.

In a similar incident, an Iranian filmmaker was sedated and chopped to death by his parents in an honour killing row over not getting married.

47-year-old Babak Khorranmdin’s dismembered body was found outside his parents' home in Ekbatan, a neighbourhood in the west of Tehran. on Sunday, May 16.

"Because of the disputes we had, I sedated him this morning (Sunday) by giving him anaesthetics, then stabbed him to death. Then I dismembered his body and threw it in the nearest trash can on the street with my wife," Rokna News Agency quoted the victim's father as saying.

The suspect was arrested and charged with murder.