Man held for killing twin daughters
NEW DELHI: A month after a 32-year-old man murdered his newborn twin girls and buried them near his house in Sultanpuri, outer Delhi, police officers on Wednesday said that they arrested the accused from Rohtak in Haryana.
The accused, investigators said, was unhappy over the birth of his daughters as he wanted a son. The shocking crime took place on May 30 when Neeraj Solanki, a Delhi University graduate, fled the hospital with the newborn daughters as his wife Pooja Solanki was being discharged.
He allegedly took the babies in a car and told his wife that he would be following her to her parents’ home in Rohtak. However, he went to Sultanpuri in Delhi where he lives, and buried them at a crematorium there.
Police said Solanki and his family initially lied to Pooja that the babies died of illness.
On June 3, Pooja and her family reported it to the police but Solanki had absconded by then, they said.
On June 5, police said they took permission from the SDM office to exhume the bodies, after which they were shifted to a hospital. Police suspect the accused had starved the babies to death and later buried them. DCP (crime branch) Amit Goel said the accused kept changing his mobile handset, SIM cards and hideouts to evade the police.
Solanki’s father Vijender Solanki, who was also detained, told the police that the father of the girls was upset so he kidnapped them from the hospital.
“During interrogation, he confessed to the double murder,” added Goel. Solanki is a graduate in arts from DU and is currently unemployed.