new delhi a longstanding affair with a minor girl in his neighbourhood and his inability to end it while he was married to pooja led 26yearold nitin verma to murder his family of father mother and wife the accused nitin admitted this while in police custody on saturdayreportedly nitin had had a parallel affair with the minor girl all along his courtship with his deceased pregnant wife pooja 25 and even before their marriage his love marriage with pooja happened while he was still in a relationship with the minor girl at that time he perhaps felt more inclined towards pooja rather than the girl who will turn 18 next year even after their marriage in january last year he couldnt control his strong feelings towards the girl and end the relationship with her said a police official from dwarka police station the weapon used to kill pooja and nitins parents vinod 55 and pushpa 50 was a mediumsized kitchen knife it was recovered along with his bloodstained clothes and bloodstained hand towel from the railway line near palam after his confession although the murder was not completely preplanned nitin admitted he had been thinking of killing his wife since the past 10 days on friday night however when he had an argument with pooja over his affair after he returned in a momentary fit of rage he stabbed her had he not had that argument he perhaps wouldnt have killed her then but would have done so with a plan in a few days said dcp southwest shalini singhthe dcp said that on questioning the minor girl the police realised that she wasnt aware of his intentions i think she was too young to understand his motives he had only told her that they both would go off to some other place and start life afresh his parents were not initially aware of his affair but after pooja got to know the whole family knew about it said singh she added that while nitins medical reports state that he had some alcohol in his system he wasnt drunk and was in complete control of his actionsnitin had murdered his wife and parents in cold blood on saturday early morning around 1215 am following an argument the attack appeared to be heavily influenced by blinding rage which is the reason that nitin stabbed pooja 42 times vinod 18 times and pushpa 14 times said a police official from dwarka nitin was an adopted child and according to his relatives his parents never treated him or made him feel like an outsiderafter the incident nitin tried to cover it up by calling his uncle vijay saying he had been injured in an accident while returning home from work at jhandewalan and that no one at his home was responding to his calls he later changed his statement saying that three masked men had attacked them inside the house and he had escaped and reached buddha garden in the ridge vinods body