'Locals Kept Troubling Us, Nobody Helped': UP Man Says In video Before Killing 4 Sisters, Mother

A chilling video has gone viral hours after the shocking crime where Arshad has claimed that his neighbours and land mafia captured their house and were planning to traffic his sisters. 

Police personnel during an investigation after five members of a family were found dead at a hotel, in Lucknow.

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A 24-year-old man has been accused of killing his four sisters and mother inside a hotel room in Lucknow. The accused, identified as Mohammad Arshad, alleged land harassment by locals of his community in his hometown Agra.

A chilling video has gone viral hours after the shocking crime where Arshad has claimed that his neighbours and land mafia captured their house and were planning to traffic his sisters. 

"My family has taken this step out of helplessness because of my neighbours. I am killing my sisters and myself. My neighbours are responsible for this entire incident. They kept troubling us in order to get our house. But nobody listened to us," Arshad said in the video. 

"It has been 10-15 days since I am sleeping on the footpath and wondering here and there. I don't want my family to wander in the cold. They have snatched my house. I have the papers of the house," he added. 

Arshad made an appeal to the police and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the video clip. 

"When the police get this video, I have a plea to the Lucknow police and Yogi Ji (UP CM Yogi Adityanath) -- Do not spare such Muslims. What you are doing is commendable because these Muslims are involved in land grabbing and oppression everywhere," he said.

He also claimed that his neighbours wanted to traffic his sisters and send her to Hyderabad.

"They wanted to send me to jail on false charges and traffic my sisters to Hyderabad. But I didn't want that to happen. So out of compulsion, I had to kill my sisters," he added. He claimed that he had sought help from the police and various political groups, but no help ever arrived. 

Arshad also claimed that he wanted to convert to Hinduism because of the harassment from the locality.

"We wanted to convert to Hinduism because of the harassment from the locality. We wanted to build a temple there and live peacefully. We even used to worship," he said in the video.   

Mohammad Arshad was arrested shortly after the chilling incident, which took place in the busy Naka area of the Lucknow, came to light. Central Lucknow Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Raveena Tyagi said the incident took place at Hotel Sharanjeet. 

"The accused, identified as Arshad (24), allegedly killed five members of his own family. Following the gruesome act, the local police promptly apprehended the accused from the crime scene," Raveena Tyagi said. 

The deceased have been identified as Alia (9), Alshia (19), Aksa (16) and Rahmeen (18) -- all sisters of Arshad. The fifth victim is Asma, the mother of the accused. 

Meanwhile, the DCP said that Arshad's family lived in Agra and preliminary inquiry has revealed that he took the step because of domestic disputes.