patna a contractual state government employee killed his daughter in sleep at new vigrahpur colony under jakkanpur police station area of the city around 5am on sunday for her alleged illicit relation with one of her brothersinlaw the deceased 21 was sleeping inside her room while her mother reshmi devi 59 and brother sooraj pandit 28 had left for a morning walk when shiv shankar pandit 61 armed with a sharpedged weapon sneaked inside his daughters bedroom and cut her neck patna ssp manu maharaaj said the incident seems of be of an honour killing as shiv shankar told the police he killed his daughter because she had an illicit relationship with one of her brothersinlaw more family members will be interrogated soon he said jakkanpur sho abrar ahmed khan said shiv was spotted by some neighbours in the morning he was arrested within six hours of the killing the sho said the murder weapon was recovered from below the bed on which the deceased body was found the killer had tried to clean the weapon but it still had blood stains she had completed her graduation and was preparing for admission in bed course said one of the maternal cousins of the deceased on the alleged affair or illicit relation of the deceased he feigned ignorance as he stays at a different place he however said shiv used to practise black magic and also had a guru somewhere in patna shiv never said anything about the location of his guru there were frequent quarrels in the family on the issue he said adding that shiv was mentally unstable as well neighbours of the family also said shiv used to practise black magic for the last several years and his behaviour was not normal according to the family members shiv retired from the state electricity department last year after which he had started working again on contract the family has been living in a singlestorey building for the past several decades there are tenants in the building as well the deceased was the youngest among the eight siblings her five elder sisters and a brother were married while one brother was studying in delhi her fathers salary and rent from tenants were the main sources of income for the family an fir was lodged with jakkanpur police station on the basis of a written complaint of reshmi who alleged that her husband killed her daughter the body was handed over to the family members after postmortem