PUNE: A truck owner, who suspected his 18-year-old daughter of having an affair and her 14-year-old sister of supporting her, ran over both of them with his vehicle and killed himself at Indori village near Talegaon Dabhade, about 45km from Pune, on Sunday morning.
“We have recovered a note, purportedly written by the man, near his body stating that he was taking the drastic step as he was not happy with his elder daughter’s behaviour. The note added that no one should be held responsible for their deaths,” senior inspector Pradip Londhe of the Talegaon MIDC police told TOI.
Londhe said the man’s wife, in her complaint, stated that her husband was upset with his eldest daughter for chatting with someone over the cellphone.
“The family had a discussion about it on Saturday. About an hour past Saturday midnight, the man got up in a fit of rage and woke up the two girls and forced them out of the house. He made them sleep on an internal road in front of the house,” Londhe said.
By this time, the wife and their youngest daughter aged five woke up and saw the man forcing the two girls to sleep on the road and starting the truck. The horrified wife ran to a relative’s house nearby to seek help, but by the time she returned, the man had allegedly run over his two daughters and ended his life too, Londhe said, citing the FIR.
“Based on the note and the circumstances, we suspect that after running over his daughters, the man jumped out of the truck which was moving at slow speed and threw himself in front of the vehicle. We are verifying these aspects,” Londhe told TOI.
The police have registered an offence of murder.