India, Sept. 30 -- A Ghaziabad court awarded life imprisonment to a 40-year-old man for murdering his wife and their three minor children, including twins, by slashing their throats at their house on the intervening night of April 20 and 21, 2019, in Indirapuram's Gyan Khand, the police said in a statement issued on Tuesday.

Before the murders, Sumit Kumar, an engineer, worked as a data scientist in Noida, Gurugram and later went to Bengaluru, Karnataka, in 2018 but resigned in 2019.

The deceased were identified as Kumar's wife, Anshu Bala, 32, their five-year-old son, and twins aged four. Bala worked as a teacher at a play school in Indirapuram, while Kumar was unemployed at the time of incident.

"The court awarded life imprisonment t...