A three-month pregnant woman here has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging to bring to end triple talaq after her husband abandoned her fearing she may give birth to a girl again.
The police said the victims had been identified as KS Kang, his wife Satinder Kaur and their daughter-in-law Manpreet Kaur. The accused has been identified as Ram Bahadur.
The victim, Manoj Kumar, used to often threaten his wife saying that he would kill himself, police said.
A group of Muslim councillors left the Meerut Municipal Corporation House as soon as other members started singing Vande Mataram, following which a proposal to terminate their membership was passed.
The police arrested a man who confessed to have buried a new-born girl alive in a field near his house at a village in Odisha's Jajpur district last Saturday.
Sanjeev Dayal (65), who conducted coaching classes for engineering students, and his wife Vidya (58) lived a secluded life in their Twin Towers flat in Kanpur's Sharda Nagar.