{"id":25743,"date":"2026-09-18T08:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=25743"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:48:05","slug":"rajkot-murder-man-kills-5-year-old-daughter-stores-body-in-fridge-ends-life-rajkot-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=25743","title":{"rendered":"Rajkot Murder: Man kills 5-year-old daughter, stores body in fridge; ends life | Rajkot News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-134320221,imgsize-44689,width-400,height-225,resizemode-75\/getimagecontentjpg.jpg\" alt=\"Rajkot man kills 5-year-old daughter, stores body in fridge; ends life\" title=\"Police at the house where the murder-suicide took place in Hadida village of Amreli district\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Police at the house where the murder-suicide took place in Hadida village of Amreli district\">Police at the house where the murder-suicide took place in Hadida village of Amreli district<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>RAJKOT: A five-year-old girl was allegedly murdered by her father, who decked up her body and placed it in the refrigerator before taking his own life, in Hadida village of Amreli district\u2019s Savarkundla taluka late on Wednesday night.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Preliminary investigation and suicide notes recovered indicated that the 40-year-old man, Kishore Dhanak, took the gruesome step out of financial crisis stemming from investment in a construction site. He allegedly smothered his daughter Himanshi and then hanged himself to death in another room.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Late on Wednesday night, Hadida sarpanch called the police, informing them about the deaths. When cops reached there, they found Dhanak hanging and three suicide notes on the cot.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>One of the notes mentioned that he had killed his daughter and placed the body in the refrigerator.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>His wife Manju had gone to her aunt\u2019s house on Sept 14. When she returned the next day, she found the house locked. Dhanak told her on the phone that he was at a friend\u2019s house in Mahuva and asked her to go to her parental home in Dadhia.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>On Sept 16, he told Manju that he had gone to Mahuva in adjoining Bhavnagar district to collect money and later asked her to start for home. When he did not contact her again till evening, she sent her brother Ghanshyam to check on them. Ghanshyam found the house locked and received no response despite calling out to them.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Manju, her brother and father subsequently reached the house. After being alerted by a neighbour, the sarpanch was called and the door was opened.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>In one note, Dhanak referred to around Rs 7.25 lakh due to him from the construction project and said he had also invested personal loan money in it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>In another note, he reportedly admitted to killing his daughter by covering her mouth and said he did so because he feared she would suffer without him. The third note contained an apology and, on its reverse side, reportedly stated that he had kept his daughter\u2019s body in the refrigerator.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Police also found that Dhanak had worn gloves on his hands and feet and covered his face with a cloth before taking his own life.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Girl\u2019s head covered with chunri, tulsi leaves placed in mouth<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>PL Chaudhary, inspector, Savarkundla Rural police station, said when the girl\u2019s body was recovered from the refrigerator, her father had placed tulsi leaves in her mouth, covered her head with a chunri and put a garland around her neck. \u201cThere were signs of some kind of celebration in the room where Dhanak was found hanging. The room had been decorated with colourful balloons and kites,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>Investigators are now examining whether Dhanak had celebrated an occasion with his daughter shortly before allegedly killing her, and are trying to establish what happened in the house before the tragedy.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/rajkot\/man-kills-5-year-old-daughter-stores-body-in-fridge-ends-life\/articleshow\/134320222.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police at the house where the murder-suicide took place in Hadida village of Amreli district RAJKOT: A five-year-old girl was allegedly murdered by her father, who decked up her body and placed it in the refrigerator before taking his own life, in Hadida village of Amreli district\u2019s Savarkundla taluka late on Wednesday night.Preliminary investigation and 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