The incident came to light after the police found the bodies of three girls, aged between nine and four years, from a trunk from inside their parents’ house in the locality during its search.
In a shocking incident, a “poverty-stricken” migrant labourer and his wife killed their three minor daughters and stuffed their bodies in a trunk in their house in Muqsudan locality of Punjab’s Jalandhar district, police said on Monday.
The incident came to light after the police found the bodies of three girls, aged between nine and four years, from a trunk from inside their parents’ house in the locality during its search.
The couple had on Sunday reported to police that their daughters, namely, Amrita, 9, Sakshi, 7, and Kanchan, 4, were missing since morning.
Accused Couple filed missing complaint
The police said that the couple had informed police that their daughters who were playing in the locality’s street had not returned till 11 pm on Sunday.
However, when the police started investigating, searched the locality and talked to people, it was learnt that the girls were at home only since morning and had not come out.
Getting suspicious, the police also got to know from CCTV footage that nowhere were the girls seen outside in the locality and hence, the searched inside the house and found the girls’ bodies stuffed inside a trunk.
Jalandhar Rural Police (PS Maqsudan) traced the murder case within 6 hours and arrested two accused.#ActionAgainstCrime pic.twitter.com/b45Hz9AjbZ
— Jalandhar Range Police (@JalandharRange) October 2, 2023