Father kills kids to `teach wife a lesson'MUMBAI, April 19: A depressed father from Ulhasnagar who wanted to teach his wife a lesson killed his two sons and dumped their bodies into the nullah. He then tried to flee the town, but was arrested by the Thane police today.Police said the married couple was staying in the Punjabi Colony and frequently quarrelled over petty things. On April 15, the conflict reached a climax when the depressed wife questioned her husband why he wasn't taking up any job or at least not allowing her to take up some job in order to maintain their kids. The angry husband told her not to be too smart and said if she cared too much for her children, he would kill them.On April 16, he took the two children, Suraj (6) and Chandan (4) from the house of his father-in-law, where they had been kept, and vanished. It was yesterday, when there was a commotion near the nullah at the railway bridge, one km away from their residence, when the bodies of two children were spotted. Themother went to have a glimpse and, to her shock, they turned out to be her own children. She identified them and lodged a complaint with the Central police at Ulhasnagar. The police gave the name of the killer as Umesh alias Munna Shanbu Roy (32) and the kids' mother as Meena (25). Businessman shot deadA businessman was shot dead in his shop by two unidentified gunmen at Ulhasnagar on Sunday morning. At around 9.30 am near Jhulelal Mandir Chowk, Camp No 2 , when Ramesh Lachuram Kalya was at his grocery shop, two assailants entered and opened fire at him. Kalya, who was injured in the left shoulder and chest, died on the spot. The assailants escaped on a motorcycle. Some shop-keepers in the area said they were being threatened by local gangsters to cough up protection money, and the killing could be a fallout of Kalya not paying hafta. Thane Commissioner of Police, O P Bali, and other senior officials later visited the spot.
