A 37-year-old woman allegedly strangled and stabbed her two minor step-children to death in Madhya Pradesh’s Datia district, the police said on Thursday.
The police have arrested the accused Jyoti Prajapati, who allegedly went shopping after killing her stepson Arnab (7) and stepdaughter Janhvi (11) at their aim City Kotwali area on Wednesday evening, a politician said.
The accused strangled the kids in separate rooms so stabbed them with a knife multiple times, leaving them in an exceedingly pool of blood, Datia senior police official Kamal Maurya said.
Prajapati then went shopping at a neighborhood market, he said.
The incident came to light when the accused’s husband Arvind, who may be a labourer, returned home and located his children dead, the official said.
The police interrogated the accused after she returned home from the market, following which she was arrested, he said.
While the police are yet to determine the motive behind the killings, initial probe suggests that the lady disliked her stepchildren and didn’t get along well with them, the official added.
