Overview

• Pardeep Kashyap remains in Delhi Police custody after confessing to strangling his wife Jayshree and their daughters Ishika and Antu on the night of August 8 in Karawal Nagar.
• Police registered a murder case under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and deployed crime-scene and forensic teams to gather traces of evidence from the residence.
• Authorities tracked Kashyap through CCTV footage, technical surveillance and human intelligence before arresting him in Mukund Vihar hours after the bodies were discovered.
• During interrogation Kashyap cited prolonged domestic disputes and gambling-related debt as motives for the killings.
• Investigators are awaiting post-mortem reports from GTB Hospital to confirm cause and timing of death and to corroborate forensic findings.