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Uttar Pradesh: A 29-year-old woman killed her three children by strangulation and then died by suicide in Tikri town, Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, over her husband not speaking to her and the children not being sent to a private school, officials said on Wednesday.

According to the police, the woman, identified as Tej Kumari, also known as Maya, was the second wife of Vikas Kumar, who works as a tourist bus driver in Delhi and lives in Bhojan Patti in Tikri town. He used to visit home occasionally. They had three children who lived in the village with their mother: a seven-year-old daughter, Gunjan; a two-year-old daughter, Kitto; and a five-month-old daughter, Meera.

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Gunjan had been living with her aunt in Budhana, Muzaffarnagar, and was brought home by her mother, Tej Kumari, on Monday, ahead of her birthday on September 12. Vikas Kumar had been at home for two days. On Tuesday night around 8:30 PM, Vikas was lying outside under a tree. When he went inside and called out to his wife, there was no response. After knocking on the door without any reply, he alerted the neighbors, who gathered at the scene, and the police were informed.

Officers from Doghat police station arrived and, looking through the skylight above the door, saw the bodies of three girls on a bed and Tej Kumari hanging from a fan. The police broke the skylight, sent a young man inside, and then forced the locked door to enter. They recovered the bodies of all four victims.

CO Vijay Kumar and ASP Praveen Kumar reached the spot to investigate. ASP Praveen Singh Chauhan stated that Tej Kumari strangled her three daughters before taking her own life. Family discord is being cited as the apparent reason behind the incident, which has left Vikas’s family in shock.

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According to the police, Vikas and Tej Kumari were living together after Vikas’s first wife had left him eight to ten years ago. The eldest daughter, Gunjan, was from the first marriage, while the other two daughters were Tej Kumari’s children.

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