India, July 3 -- LUCKNOW A day after a 42-year-old man stabbed his elderly in-laws to death when they refused to send their daughter back with him in Lucknow's Gadhi Kanora area in Alambagh, his wife and sole eyewitness to the incident broke down while recalling the chilling sequence of events.

Poonam Devi, who has been estranged from the accused, Jagdeep Kumar, for nearly two years, said she helplessly watched as her husband slit the throats of her parents, Anant Ram, 73, a retired railway employee and Asha Devi, 71, during what was supposed to be a brief visit by him to meet their child.

"Jagdeep said he just wanted to meet our child and promised he hadn't been drinking. I told him not to come if he was drunk, but he insisted he was s...