Post-losses, businessman slashes wife’s throat, attacks his 3 children

MUMBAI: A lottery retailer owner, who is reeling underneath heavy debts, many times assaulted his spouse and 3 youngsters with knives at their Goregaon place of dwelling early on Wednesday, leaving the flat and the passage outside coated with blood. Later, he surrendered ahead of the police, announcing he had “misplaced his mind”. All four of his family members had been hospitalized and his spouse is significant.
Umesh Gupta (48) ran Rajshri Lottery at Malad (East).

He lived with his 42-year-old spouse, two daughters elderly 24 and 22, and a 16-year-old son at the 7th floor of a development near Goregaon (West) railway station. One of his daughters is a chartered accountant while the other is studying to be one. Police officials stated Gupta had suffered losses and had borrowed cash from more than a few sources however was not able to repay them.

“On Tuesday night time, the Guptas had dinner and went to bed round 11.30pm after staring at tv. Around 1.40am, Umesh woke up and brought out two knives which, cops suspect, he had purchased upfront. He slashed his spouse’s throat and then went on to assault her with a knife on her abdomen and legs.

His screaming spouse emerged from the bedroom bleeding profusely. Umesh then became against his daughters, attacking them on their heads. He assaulted his son at the proper arm and head. All his youngsters tried to battle again. His son sustained a fracture in an arm,” stated a police professional. The two knives have been recovered from the flat.

Guptas’ neighbours stated they have been asleep and didn't listen the screams. “But a third-floor resident, who was mendacity down within the passage outside his home, heard them. He asked Umesh, who was hiking down the steps, about the ruckus. Umesh reportedly informed him that a battle was on in a third-floor flat.

Meanwhile, one of Umesh’s daughter staggered out of the home and started to bang the doorways of probably the most neighbours’ residences round 2am. “We have been horrified to find the circle of relatives significantly injured and rushed them to Siddharth Hospital,” stated Manda Berde, who lives at the similar floor as the Guptas.


Umesh went to Goregaon police station and confessed to his crime. “He saved sobbing. He stated he had misplaced his mind and was sorry. He had first of all deliberate to kill himself after wiping off all of the circle of relatives,” stated a cop from the police station.


“The Guptas have lived right here for two decades. They at all times saved to themselves. We never heard any raised voices from their area, which is why the incident has left us surprised,” stated Berde. The Guptas’ family members have been knowledgeable of the crime by way of the police, and Bindu and her youngsters have been moved to a personal medical institution in Goregaon. The family members were given the bloodstains within the flat and at the passage wiped off.


Umesh has been booked underneath IPC Section 307 for attempt to murder. Cops will probe where he purchased the knives.


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