India, Feb. 28 -- Two days after a 30-year-old woman and her three daughters, aged three, four and five, were found dead with their throats slit at their rented accommodation in Samaypur Badli, their postmortem examination revealed that they were not sedated before the murder.

Police had earlier suspected they were drugged since the neighbours did not hear any noise before the bodies were found.

The four were found murdered on Wednesday and the prime suspect, the husband, is on the run.

Deputy commissioner of police (outer north) Hareshwar Swami said the mother was identified as Anita and the father as Munchun Kewat, a vegetable seller in Azadpur Mandi. The family is from Bihar and was living at a rented accommodation in Chandan Park....