India, April 20 -- It was a usual evening for a family of five, with twin daughters and a son, at their apartment in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur. The family had dinner and went to their rooms to sleep. Mother and the six-year-old son slept in one room, while the twin daughters, 11, went to sleep in another room.

In the morning, the mother received the shock of her life when the cops turned up at the door of their Kidwai Nagar apartment. While she slept peacefully with her son in one room, her husband had murdered their daughters by slitting their throats in another room.

After brutally slaughtering the children, the man, 45-year-old Shashi Ranjan Mishra, dialled the police helpline number to report the crime.

"We received a call on 112 at a...