jodhpur police on tuesday arrested army jawan naik ram prasad for killing his wife and daughter at his residential quarters in the army cantonment here on sunday the accused admitted to killing his wife and daughter to get rid of them police said dcp east amrita duhan said that the postmortem was conducted on tuesday after the family members of the killed woman arrived the report mentioned that both mother and daughter were first strangulated and then burnt using petrol said duhan on the basis of the report police initially detained ram prasad and interrogated him who admitted to having killed his wife rukmeena 25 and daughter ridhima 2ram prasad had married rukmeena a native of nepal in january 2020 and had been posted in jodhpur since august 2020 prasad is a native of sikkimduhan said that the relationship between husband and wife was not amicable and they would often engage in verbal spats he wanted to get rid of his wife and hatched the plan to kill her he also decided to kill his infant daughter in order to get rid of her responsibility duhan saidon the fateful night he first strangled his wife and then his daughter when they were sleeping in their bed at about 4am and then poured petrol to burn them and eliminate the evidence after that he ran out of the house claiming that he tried to save them but could not and cooked the story that both were burnt in a fire caused by a short circuit in the cooler