Family of 5 found dead with gunshot wounds to head in UP

Police have recovered the bodies of five members of a family, including a couple, from a colony in the Sarsawa police station area of Saharanpur district on Tuesday morning, police said.

According to police, the deceased included a land surveyor named Ashok Rathi (40), his wife Ajanta (37), his mother Vidyawati (70), and their two sons, Kartik (16) and Dev (13).

The bodies were discovered in the same room, and three loaded pistols were found next to Ashok



Rathi’s body, police said.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Saharanpur Ashish Tiwari told Media  that the police received information in the morning about the discovery of the five bodies in a room of their house in Kaushik Vihar colony in Sarsawa. 

Upon receiving information about the murdered family, Saharanpur DIG Abhishek Singh, SSP Ashish Tiwari, SP Rural Sagar Jain, along with the forensic team, arrived at the scene to commence the investigation.