5 of family found dead in Lucknow hotel | Lucknow News

Accused Arshad and family

LUCKNOW: Five members of a family, including a woman and her four daughters, were found murdered inside a hotel room in Lucknow on Wednesday morning, police said.
The police have arrested one Arshad, the deceased woman’s son, in connection with the murders.
The family, originally from Agra, had come to Lucknow to celebrate the New Year.
The bodies were found inside a room at hotel Sharanjeet situated in Naka area of the city.
The deceased have been identified as Aliya (9), Alishiya (19), Aksa (16), Raheeman (18)and their mother Asma.
Police said that Arshad, confessed during preliminary interrogation to murdering his four sisters and mother. He claimed the family was being harassed by neighbours, and he feared for their safety if something happened to him. Driven by this fear, he decided to kill them, DCP Central Zone, Raveena Tyagi said.
Arshad, made a video of the crime and shared it online. In the video, Arshad shows the lifeless bodies of his mother and sisters and explains how he killed them.
Arshad took his family to Ajmer before returning to Lucknow, where he checked them into a hotel. At night, he strangled his mother with her dupatta and stuffed cloth in her mouth. Similarly, he stuffed cloth into his sisters’ mouths and slit their wrists.
Arshad blamed his community in Agra and other people for driving him to this extreme step, claiming that he was troubled and under immense pressure.
He added that to save honour of sisters and mother he took such a step. “Neither the local police outpost nor any leader from his or another community came for their help. They spent nights on footpath,” he said.
His father assisted him in committing the murders.
After the act, Arshad dropped his father at the railway station and went to the police station to report the crime. Based on his disclosure, the police recovered the murder weapons, including a blade and a scarf.
Arshad’s father, Badar, is currently on the run, and CCTV footage from the railway station is being reviewed to identify and apprehend him.
Further interrogation is underway, and evidence is being collected to verify every detail of the incident.