gurugram a 32yearold man barged into a faridabad house with his friend slit the throats of his estranged wife and motherinlaw and fired at his brotherinlaw and his business partner in their sleep around 230am on thursdaythe mans wife ayesha 32 and her mother suman 50 were declared dead in a hospital rajan 35 the friend of his brotherinlaw gagan too succumbed to bullet injuries gagan 26 is battling for life the murders took place in gothda mohbtabad villagethe accused has been identified as neeraj around 230am on thursday neeraj and his friend lekhraj both wielding guns knocked on the door of the house where his wife lived it is believed that the couples 12yearold son opened the doorneeraj first used a knife to slit the throat of ayesha and suman and then went to the other room and fired at gagan and rajan in 20 minutes the duo had attacked all four adult members of the house and fled leaving the 12yearold boy crying police said cops inspecting the house claimed at least four shots had been fired from a countrymade pistol by sunday evening the crime branch had arrested both neeraj and lekhraj we are questioning the two to understand what prompted them to commit the murders an investigation is underway said subhe singh a spokesperson for the policethe couple sources said had developed testy ties over a year ago since last year ayesha had been living separately from her husband she moved into her mothers house with her son apparently because neeraj would often accuse her of being involved in an illicit relationship neeraj who sells buttons for shirts had tried to convince ayesha to come back home several times but to no avail he also nursed a grudge against his motherinlaw who he thought was not allowing ayesha to return home in nit 1 lekhraj who was with neeraj during the murders is a tailor and would buy buttons from him gagan has told the police that neeraj had also been harassing him for a small loan he had taken gagan and rajan were property dealers and had an office in sector 56 after work on thursday gagan had asked rajan to come to his house in gothda mohbtabad and stay the night for some work both of them were hit in the cheston thursday morning the police sealed the house which originally belongs to a former sarpanch who had put it on rent neighbours said the family mostly stayed aloofhardly anyone knew the family they had shifted here a month ago everyone was worried seeing a police team in their house in the morning later we learnt about the murders said rajesh kumar a villager