LUCKNOW, April 13 -- The blood-soaked bodies of a rag picker's 29-year-old wife and 5-year-old son were found in a slum under Ayodhya city police station limits on Saturday. Police suspected that the ragpicker, who was found missing, could be involved in the killing over some family issue.

According to inspector in-charge of Ayodhya City Kotwali, Ashwani Kumar Pandey, the victims were identified as Nesiya Begum and her son Shahdkar Khandkar, who were living in a hut in a slum in Bachda Sultanpur village. Initial investigations revealed that the deceased woman, along with her husband Shahjaan Khandkar (32) and two sons, the deceased and his elder brother Nebutullah (10), had been living in the slum, where around 20 more rag-picker familie...