An Indian couple has been found dead in the US, with a four-year-old daughter seen crying alone on the balcony

An Indian couple has been found dead in the US, with a four-year-old daughter seen crying alone on the balcony

An Indian couple has been found dead in the US, with a four-year-old daughter seen crying alone on the balcony

Mumbai : An Indian couple has been found dead in their home in the United States after neighbors saw their four-year-old daughter crying alone on the porch of their home, family sources said on Friday.

Some American media reported that the couple were killed by stabbing in their North Arlington apartment.

The husband allegedly stabbed and cut his wife in the abdomen while trying to fight her in the living room, but American media reported.

The bodies of Balaji Bharat Rudrawar (32) and his wife Arati Balaji Rudrawar (30) were found in their 21-storey flat in Garden Terrace in Riverview Gardens complex north of North Arlington in New Jersey with just over 15,000 residents.

"The bodies were found on Wednesday after neighbors saw my granddaughter crying on the balcony and alerted the local police and entered the house," Balaji's father Bharat Rudrawar told PTI.

Some US local newspapers quoted the media release at the regional prosecutor's office as saying that police entered the apartment and found the couple dead.

"Investigators were waiting for the medical examiner to determine the cause and circumstances of his death, but they confirmed that both victims had been stabbed," the report said.

An Indian couple has been found dead in the US, with a four-year-old daughter seen crying alone on the balcony

"The local police told me about the tragedy on Thursday. It was not immediately clear what caused his death.

U.S. police said they would share their findings with the autopsy report, "Rudrawar said.

"My daughter-in-law was seven months pregnant," he said. "We had been away from them and were planning another trip to America so that we could be with them again," he said.

"I don't know what could be the reason. They were a happy family and they had good neighbors," he said when asked if he suspected any misconduct.

"I have been informed by the US authorities that it will take at least 8 to 10 days for the bodies to arrive in India after proper procedures," he said.

"My granddaughter now has a friend of my son's. He had many friends in the Indian community, with a 60% population in New Jersey," he said.

Balaji Rudrawar, an IT expert from Ambajogai in the Beed district of Maharashtra had moved to the US with his wife in August 2015 after their marriage in December 2014, said his father, a temple businessman, about 500 kilometers from Mumbai.

While Balaji was working for a prominent Indian infotech company, his wife was a homemaker, Rudrawar said. PTI