Overview
- Shashi Ranjan Mishra, 48, was arrested at his Kanpur flat after calling 112 around 4:30 am Sunday, when officers found his 11-year-old twin daughters dead with deep neck wounds and a blood‑stained knife nearby.
- Forensic and sniffer‑dog teams processed the Kidwai Nagar apartment, seized medicines from the accused’s room, and sent the bodies for post‑mortem.
- His wife, Reshma, told police he drank, beat her and kept cameras across the home, and she says she learned of the killings only when officers knocked as she slept in another room with their six‑year‑old son.
- Police say the father appears mentally disturbed and are probing motive, with several outlets citing investigators who report he said he mixed sleeping pills for the girls and bought a cleaver the day before.
- Investigators are reviewing internal CCTV footage and awaiting autopsy and toxicology results that could confirm sedation, as legal proceedings move forward on the FIR and the suspect’s court production.