New Delhi, July 4 -- A 24-year-old man, who worked at a garment shop in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar market, allegedly slit the throats of his employer's wife and teenage son inside their residence, hours after he was humiliated for not showing up to work on time, police said on Thursday.

The victims were identified as Ruchika Sewani, 42, and her son Krish, 14. The suspect, Mukesh Paswan, was arrested from a train in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction railway station in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday morning.

Paswan, who worked in a garment store run by Kuldeep Sewani, the husband and father of the two victims, respectively, told the police that he killed the two people after Ruchika "scolded and humiliated" him.

The murder came to light on...