A 35-year-old professor and his eight-year-old daughter were found dead with surgical blade cuts on their throats at his office at Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (LUVAS) on Sunday evening in Hisar, Haryana.
The professor, identified as Sandeep Goyal, was battling clinical depression and is believed to have first slit his daughter Sanaya’s throat with the surgical blade and then used the same weapon to kill himself.
According to officers, Goyal had left the house on his scooter on Sunday at 4 pm with his daughter, Sanaya, on the pretext of taking her for a ride. When the father-daughter duo did not return for hours, Goyal’s wife went to the university to search for them, as ANI reported.
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Upon noticing Goyal’s scooter parked outside the Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology office, his wife entered but found the office door locked from the inside. Subsequently, she informed the security guard, along with her, broke open the gate. Following this, they discovered the lifeless bodies of the professor and his daughter in a pool of blood.
A team from the HAU police post rushed at the scene upon receiving information about the discovered bodies.
Reacting to the incident, Hisar Superintendent of Police Mohit Handa, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rajesh Mohan, Registrar Devendra Kumar, and Deputy Superintendent of Police Vijaypal also reached the crime scene.
Sandeep Goyal, hailed from Haryana’s Narwana and resided with his family in the government quarters at LUVAS. He joined the university as an Assistant Professor in 2016. Goyal’s father is employed as an accountant in Narwana.
“We have called the mobile forensic unit for scientific evidence. We are working at the scene of crime. We are questioning everyone in the locality and his family,” ASP Rajesh Mohan told ANI on Monday.
The Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) disclosed that the professor was grappling with depression, exhibited suicidal tendencies, and was undergoing psychotherapy.
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“We have questioned everyone. According to his colleagues, he was receiving treatment from a psychotherapist. He was suffering from depression. We will be able to know about his exact medical condition after speaking to his doctor. Everyone is saying that he was depressed and under treatment. He had suicidal tendencies as well,” he said.
(With ANI Inputs)