'Techie who killed wife, 3 kids was drug addict'

GHAZIABAD: Drug dependancy, and now not financial crisis, has been cited as the main reason why by the family members of the 32-year-old woman who, in conjunction with her 3 youngsters, was murdered by her tool engineer husband in Indirapuram on Saturday night time.
The relatives claimed that Sumit Kumar’s annual pay package deal was Rs 14 lakh when the techie resigned from the Bengaluru-based corporate in December ultimate year. Sumit (37) allegedly slit the throats of his spouse Anshu Bala (32), a trainer with Mother’s Pride, sons Prathmesh (five) and Arav (four), and daughter Akriti (four) after giving them sleeping drugs of their 2BHK flat on the intervening night time of Saturday and Sunday.

He then posted a video on the family’s WhatsApp workforce round 7pm on Sunday, informing them concerning the murders and announcing that he would dedicate suicide.

Till past due on Monday night, Sumit, who had left his flat round 3am on Sunday, was but to be traced. Sources in the police stated his location had been ultimate traced to Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh and six teams had been dispatched to more than a few areas searching for him. Sumit has taken alongside his spouse’s telephone. The post-mortem record has said “haemorrhage because of ante-mortem damage” as the reason for Anshu’s and the children’s deaths.

On the foundation of the two minute 40 2nd video that Sumit had posted on WhatsApp, the owner of a medicine retailer has been arrested for allegedly promoting medication to the engineer. Mukesh Kumar, who ran Hukum Medical Store in Nyay Khand, had been accused by Sumit of fleecing him of over Rs 1 lakh.

Sandeep Kumar Singh, the SHO of Indirapuram police station, stated Mukesh had been operating the shop with out a licence for the previous a number of years.

It was from this shop that Sumit had lately purchased drugs price Rs 22,500, including sleeping drugs for his spouse and youngsters.

Anshu’s father Vaidyanath Singh, who was in Patna on the time of the murders, alleged that Sumit had been torturing her daughter and 3 kids for the previous 4 years and would incessantly resort to beating.

The woman’s brother Pankaj Singh, who has lodged a complaint against Sumit, claimed that the techie was hooked on psychotropic drugs and his family had come to know about it one and a half years in the past.

He also alleged that Sumit could have killed the 4 in a have compatibility of rage after being denied cash to shop for medication. “He would start trembling if he was made to keep away from medication for a very long time,” he claimed.

“Sumit was relatively violent by nature. Despite incomes a excellent salary, he was always short of cash. He would taunt my sister for giving tuitions at house. The kids, too, had been relatively terrified of him,” Pankaj added.

He further stated the medicine retailer proprietor had taken advantage of Sumit’s forgetful nature and offered him psychotropic drugs at exorbitant rates. “At instances, Sumit ended up paying Rs five,000 for drugs price Rs 100. It was as a result of Anshu was in such distress that my father started staying with them and serving to them financially,” he added.

According to Pankaj, when the family came to grasp in March that Sumit had resigned from his job 3 months earlier, Anshu made up our minds to shift to his native place in Jamshedpur to tide over the financial crisis.

SP (city) Shlok Kumar stated the GRP of neighbouring districts and states had been informed about Sumit and asked to proportion any knowledge related to him.