Kanpur: A woman and her daughter were found murdered with their throats slit at their house in Etawah on Monday morning, with police suspecting a link to the daughter’s long-running dispute with her in-laws. The double murder came to light after a milkman arrived at the house, received no response despite repeated knocking and later spotted the blood-soaked bodies from the rear side of the house. The incident was reported from Chandethi village in the Bharthana police station area, 25 km from the district headquarters. The milkman called the woman’s husband, who worked in Noida. On his instructions, he went to the rear side of the house and saw the body of Pushpa Devi Yadav (60) on the courtyard floor and that of her daughter, Nirmala Devi alias Manju Devi (38), on a cot in a room 10 metres away.Police said Nirmala’s body had been dragged from the room to the courtyard, with a trail of blood between the room and courtyard.Neighbours told police that a man had been seen coming and going to the house on a scooty on Aug 14 and 15. They said there had been no movement in the house after Aug 15. Police are examining whether Nirmala’s in-laws were involved.Suresh Chandra, a Chandethi resident, worked as a security guard in Noida. His wife, Pushpa Devi Yadav, and daughter, Nirmala Devi Yadav alias Manju Yadav, lived in the family’s village house. Their elder son, Naval Kishore, drove a cab in Noida, while younger son Nand Kishore worked in a private job in Pune.During questioning, neighbours said the scooty rider was last seen outside the house at 9 pm on Aug 15. After that, neither was the man seen again nor was any movement heard from the house.Nirmala was married in 2021 to Satendra Kumar alias Manni in the Kishni police station area of Mainpuri. She had no children and had been in a dispute with her in-laws for five years. Four months after her marriage, her husband and brothers-in-law had allegedly beaten her and sent her back to her maternal home, where she had since been living with her mother. A divorce case was also underway.On Aug 3, the court had ordered her husband to pay maintenance of Rs 7,000 per month. Her in-laws had also filed a divorce case, which remained under consideration.SSP Brijesh Kumar Srivastava said no signs of tampering with household items were found. Prima facie, the case did not appear to be a murder for robbery. He said the investigation was primarily focused on the dispute with Nirmala’s in-laws. Information was also being collected from people connected to the case and familiar with the family.
