In a gruesome incident, a woman allegedly killed her newborn twins by slitting their throats in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. The accused reportedly murdered her twin daughters after her husband denied paternity.
The case came to light after the throat-slit bodies of newborns were recovered from the couple's house in a remote Chajjla-Keyani village in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Wednesday.
Initially, the father of the female babies was detained for questioning while the bodies were shifted to a hospital for post-mortem, news agency PTI reported quoting officials.
"An information was received that bodies of two female twins were lying in the house of Mohd Khursheed at Chajjla-Keyani village and accordingly a team was rushed to the scene," Mendhar Sub-Divisional Police Officer Bhupinder Kumar told PTI.
Both the bodies were recovered and shifted to sub-district hospital Mendhar for completion of medical formalities, he said, adding the investigation is going on to unravel the motive behind the brutal double murder.
As per a report by Times Now, the accused's husband, Mohammed Khurshid, works in Saudi Arabia. He returned home three months ago.
Recently, when his wife gave birth to twins, Khurshid claimed that the children were born from an illegitimate relationship as he had been living abroad for a long time.
The accused, fearing trouble, murdered the babies. Initially, the suspicion was on Khurshid. However, during an initial investigation, the 26-year-old accused reportedly confessed to having killed the babies.
Block Medical Officer, Sub-district Hospital Mendhar, Ashfaq Choudhary, said a board of doctors was constituted and the autopsy of the babies is underway. "After completion of autopsy, the bodies will be handed over to police," he said
Meanwhile, the police launched a detailed investigation into the matter.