<p>Lucknow: A man here allegedly strangled his wife and two children and kept them inside the house for almost two days, police on Sunday said.</p><p>Police arrested Ramlagan Gautam on Sunday on charges of killing his wife Jyoti, 30, and children Payal and Anand, aged six and three.</p><p>DCP (South) Tej Swaroop Singh told reporters that Ramlagan Gautam, a native of Balrampur district, lived in a rented house in an area under the Bijnaur Police Station jurisdiction.</p><p>He said the murders were detected Sunday afternoon, when the house's owner, one Dhirendra Kumar, who lived nearby, visited it.</p><p>"There was a foul smell emanating from the house. The landlord immediately went outside Ramlagan's room on the first floor. When he peeped inside through a window, he saw Jyoti's body lying on the ground. He immediately informed the police," said Singh.</p><p>According to a preliminary investigation, Gautam killed his wife and children on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, he said.</p><p>Police have sent the bodies for post mortem examination. They are yet to ascertain the motive behind the killings.</p>
<p>Lucknow: A man here allegedly strangled his wife and two children and kept them inside the house for almost two days, police on Sunday said.</p><p>Police arrested Ramlagan Gautam on Sunday on charges of killing his wife Jyoti, 30, and children Payal and Anand, aged six and three.</p><p>DCP (South) Tej Swaroop Singh told reporters that Ramlagan Gautam, a native of Balrampur district, lived in a rented house in an area under the Bijnaur Police Station jurisdiction.</p><p>He said the murders were detected Sunday afternoon, when the house's owner, one Dhirendra Kumar, who lived nearby, visited it.</p><p>"There was a foul smell emanating from the house. The landlord immediately went outside Ramlagan's room on the first floor. When he peeped inside through a window, he saw Jyoti's body lying on the ground. He immediately informed the police," said Singh.</p><p>According to a preliminary investigation, Gautam killed his wife and children on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, he said.</p><p>Police have sent the bodies for post mortem examination. They are yet to ascertain the motive behind the killings.</p>