New Delhi, Jan. 6 -- A 25-year-old man allegedly murdered his mother, sister and 14-year-old brother at their house in east Delhi's Laxmi Nagar, police said on Monday, adding that the accused said he was "under severe financial stress" and had not been working for several months. Investigators said the man allegedly fed his family sweets laced with a sedative before strangling them to death.

The accused, identified by police as Yashveer Singh, a cab driver by profession, walked into the Laxmi Nagar police station around 5pm on Monday and surrendered, investigators said. He confessed to killing his family members and told officers that he had mixed "dhatura" - a poisonous plant - into the sweets he fed them. However, police said the exact...