Two children returning home from school on Tuesday afternoon found their father hanging inside the house and their mother lying dead on a cot in Madaripur village under BKT police station area, Lucknow police said.
The panchanama process was underway and further legal action will follow. Preliminary police inquiry indicated that the couple had been having a family dispute, though officials have not yet established the circumstances leading to their deaths. They reportedly saw their parents and alerted people in the neighbourhood.
They received information about the incident around 2 pm and reached the spot along with the assistant commissioner of police, BKT, according to police. The couple’s 10-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter, both students, returned from school around 2 pm, according to the police.
They also had a fight the night before.
DCP North Amit K Anand said, preliminary investigation suggests that the couple had a fight after their children left for school. “It appears that he first strangled his wife to death and then hanged himself,” the DCP added.
