Hyderabad stockbroker Rupesh Kumar Mohnani has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife.
The 7-year-old daughter of Rupesh Kumar Mohanani knows that her father had murdered her mother, even though he told her that she had gone to Delhi, said Luis, President of African Students' Association. The child has not been well since.
"She has been crying and vommitting. And she knows her father killed her mother," said Luis. After the murder, "when the child kept asking him for her mother, Mohanani told her that she had gone to Delhi," Mr Luis said.
Mohanani, 36, had killed his wife Cynthia, a national of Congo, on July 4 after a domestic fight over finances. He chopped up her body, stuffed the parts into a suitcase and took it in his car to an isolated spot, where he tried to burn the suitcases. In the car was his daughter, whom he had offered to take out "for a long drive".
The child had been locked in the next room on the evening of July 4, when the couple had a bitter fight which ended in murder, Mr Luis said. The man had it all planned. "He had brought the hammer, the axe and the knives, ready to use in their room. He even locked up his daughter," he added.
The child is now in judicial custody, but the Congolese Ambassador, Rosette Muku, has said she will send an advocate to pursue the matter in court and ask for the child's custody. Mohanani's aging mother does not know of the murder. Cynthia's family wants their grand-daughter to return to Congo.
On Thursday, the African Students' Association had held a protest at the RGIA police station.
"If these incidents continue, we will leave India by December," said Oscar, a student of Nizam College in Hyderabad. "This country is becoming very dangerous. You may ask all the Africans if they feel comfortable in this country. A unanimous answer would be in the negative."
Gideon, the Leader of the Nigerian Community, who led a peaceful protest on July 7 at the RGIA police station in Shamshabad, told NDTV, "Our protest is for justice. Our protest is for Cynthia."