A former Navy and Merchant Navy employee, of late unemployed and struggling to repay debts, clubbed his wife and four-year-old daughter to death with an iron spice-grinder at their Thane home on Tuesday, the police said.
They said Rakesh Kumar tried to pass off their injuries as an accident. After the attack, he called in neighbours, woke his elder daughter to say her mother and sister had been injured, and then took the two to separate hospitals. The mother was declared dead on arrival; the child died after admission.
Kumar initially claimed a cupboard had fallen on them but the post-mortem showed suspicious wounds, the police questioned Kumar and he allegedly confessed. Kumar had worked in the Indian Navy as a petty officer and later took up a contractual job in the Merchant Navy. For six months, however, he had had no assignments, the police said.
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