New Delhi: Delhi Police have not ruled out the possibility of 11 members of the Bhatia family being murdered at their residence in Burari's Sant Nagar area, as there have been cases in the past where families have been killed of en masse.
Back in May 2013, seven members of a family in Ghaziabad were killed after their throats were slit with a sharp weapon. The victims included three generations of a family, a senior citizen and his wife, their son and daughter-in-law, and three minor grandchildren. The incident came to light after a person reached their residence and found the main gate ajar.
On entering the house, the person found the seven bodies and called the neighbours.
Burari saw a similar incident in May 2017, in which the North Delhi Police arrested a man for killing the family of his business partner. The accused, Sahib Khan (27), had orchestrated the murder of Munawar Hassan, his wife and four children, in order to take over the family's property worth several crores.
Bunty revealed to cops that he had already killed Hassan's wife and children a month earlier and had buried their bodies in different places in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh and Burari.
Another high-profile murder mystery in 2017 was solved this year, after the Crime Branch arrested five persons involved in the murder of four women and a security guard at their residence in Mansarovar Park area of Shahdara district.
The gruesome murder-cum-dacoity of four women of the Jindal family and their security guard took place on the intervening night of October 6 and 7.
After murdering the women by slitting their throats and stabbing them with sharp weapons, the accused decamped with cash and jewellery from the house. Interrogations of the arrested persons revealed that the deceased security guard Rakesh knew about the money that the Jindal family had and hatched a conspiracy to kill members of the family with his relatives and son when they visited him.
Another case which had rocked the Capital last year was the suicide of Bansal family in east Delhi. On September 27, Bal Kishan Bansal and his son were found dead at their apartment in Madhu Vihar. Their demise came two months after Bansal's wife Satyabala, 58, and daughter Neha, 28, had ended their lives.