An Indian couple was discovered lifeless at their residence within the US after neighbours noticed their four-year-old daughter crying alone within the balcony of their home, household sources mentioned on Friday.
Some US media shops mentioned the couple died of an obvious stabbing of their North Arlington house.
The husband apparently stabbed and sliced his spouse within the stomach as she unsuccessfully tried to battle him off of their lounge, a US media report mentioned.
The our bodies of Balaji Bharat Rudrawar (32) and his spouse Arati Balaji Rudrawar (30) have been discovered at their 21 Garden Terrace house within the Riverview Gardens advanced of North Arlington borough in New Jersey which has simply over 15,000 residents.
“The bodies were found on Wednesday after neighbours saw my granddaughter crying in the balcony and informed the local police who then entered the house,” Balaji’s father Bharat Rudrawar informed PTI.
Some native US newspapers quoted a press launch from the county prosecutor’s workplace which mentioned officers pressured their method contained in the house and located the couple lifeless.
“Investigators were waiting for the medical examiner to determine the cause and circumstances of the death, but confirmed both victims had been stabbed,” the report mentioned.
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“The local police there informed me of the tragedy on Thursday. There is no clarity yet on the cause of the death. The US police said they will share findings of the autopsy report,” Rudrawar mentioned.
“My daughter-in-law was seven months pregnant,” he mentioned. “We had been to their house and were planning another trip to the US to be with them again,” he mentioned.
“I am not aware of any possible motive. They were a happy family and had lovely neighbours,” he mentioned when requested if he suspected foul play.
“I was informed by the US authorities that it will take at least 8 to 10 days for the bodies to reach India after necessary formalities,” he mentioned.
“My granddaughter is now with a friend of my son. He had several friends in the local Indian community, which has a 60 per cent population in New Jersey,” he mentioned.
Balaji Rudrawar, an IT skilled from Ambajogai in Maharashtra’s Beed district had moved along with his spouse to the US in August 2015 after they acquired married in December 2014, mentioned his father, a businessman from the temple city, round 500 km from Mumbai.
While Balaji was working there for a outstanding Indian infotech firm, his spouse was a homemaker, Rudrawar mentioned.