kolkata a woman and her two young daughters who had been missing for a fortnight from their flat in ekbalpore were found murdered on sunday with their heads smashed in and bodies packed in a couple of trunks four people one of them a minor have been arrested the triple murders were the fallout of a property dispute said police toi was the first to highlight the mysterious disappearance of 37yearold pushpa sharma and her daughters pradipti 14 and aradhana 12 the breakthrough came on the same day the report was published and 13 days after the victims family members had come down to kolkata from ghazipur uttar pradesh to register a formal fir the police are particularly amazed at the grisly manner in which the murders were committed the three victims had their heads smashed with a heavy hammer the bodies were then packed in a couple of trunks and buried in a shop with a layer of cement poured over to avoid detection according to the police of the port division pushpas husband pradeep had passed away five years ago two years after that pushpa had paid rs 15 lakh to buy the flat on sudhir basu lane a stones throw from the busy ekbalpore stretch of diamond harbour road from mohd sikandar the 37yearold sikandar the prime accused in the murder had worked at several hotels in denmark and hong kong before beginning to dabble in real estate around five years back said the cops the cops said theres a unique property dealing system prevalent in the area a rentand buy system which pushpa and sikandar agreed to go by under this system sikandar asked pushpa to additionally pay him rs 1000 in rent per month this buyandrent system is not found anywhere else said a source in the detective department in this system the buyer has to pay upfront and continue to pay a certain amount as rent afterwards for a fixed period to retain possession of the house this is called tenancy rights the transfer of ownership is only done after all the instalments have been paid said the source the system was working fine until sikandar proposed to buy back the house for rs 21 lakh the police said that pushpa had agreed to it initially and had even taken rs 13 lakh as advance from sikandar in two instalments though there are no written records of this but she reportedly backed out at the last moment after she came to know from neighbours that the current market price of the flat was well over rs 27 lakh the neighbours also told police that pushpa appeared to be in a hurry to leave the place and that sikandar feared that she would sell the tenancy rights to someone else the cops said that pushpa who lived on the third floor of the building often humiliated sikandar a fourthfloor resident in public calling him a cheat that