Key suspect missing hours before bodies were discovered

AMJAD AND ANOTHER YOUNGER BROTHER AZIZ ARE IN JAIL FOR DIFFERENT CRIMES IN DELHI

- HT Correspondent

LUCKNOW: The stepbrother of mason Mohd Moin, is the key suspect in the gruesome murders of Moin, 35, his wife Aasma, 33, and the couple's three daughters, aged between 8 and one year, whose bodies were found in the bed box of their rented room.

The one-room house was found locked from the outside in the Sohail Garden locality, under the Lisarigate police station limits of Meerut on Thursday night, senior police officials said on Friday. Meerut zone, additional director general (ADG) of police, Dhruv Kant Thakur, said that the key suspect is Moin's stepbrother, Naeem, who stayed with the family till late in the night on Wednesday and has been missing from his house since Thursday morning.

He said that Mohd Shamim, the brother of the deceased, Aasma, however, has lodged an FIR of murder under BNS section 103 (1) against Moin's elder brother, Salim, Moin's younger brother Amjad's wife, Nazrana, and Moin's stepbrother, Naeem, and other unidentified persons in the matter. Amjad and another younger brother Aziz are in jails for different crimes in Delhi and Roorkee respectively, he added.