Burari family deaths: Final Post-mortem report to reveal if Bhatias were murdered or was it mass suicide

A week after 11 members of a family were found hanging in their Sant Nagar home in Delhi’s Burari area, the final post-mortem reports will be released today. 

The report will unmask the biggest mystery of recent times – whether the Bhatias committed mass suicide or were they murdered in cold blood. 

The post-mortem report will also show if the 11-member family were poisoned or not.

On Friday, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police had interrogated a 'tantrik' (occultist), named Geeta Maa, in connection with the deaths.

‘Geeta Maa is the daughter of the contractor who had built the home of Lalit, the 45-year-old man believed to have planned the mass suicide,’ a police source said.

As many as 130 people have been interrogated till now regarding the Burari deaths.

The police also questioned the family's neighbours, relatives, and fiance of Priyanka ? one of the 11 members of the family.
‘Priyanka’s fiance does not know anything about this case. Police have also recovered nine mobile phones. Also, a draft map of the crime location was made,’ the source said.

Earlier in the day, it was revealed that the Delhi Police Crime Branch will conduct a psychological autopsy of the 11 members of the family.

Few of the members might have been suffering from "mental disorder," a source earlier said.

This comes after it was revealed that the police had found two registers which contain details of a 'Badh puja' ritual.

Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Alok Kumar on Monday said that post-mortem of all the 11 bodies have been completed, and initial reports suggest suicide. 

The bodies of seven women and four men were found in a house in Burari area on Sunday morning.

But the mystery lingered as to why a prosperous family, that was doing well for itself, would take such an extreme step.

The answers were found in notes recovered from the house by the police which had writings about 'badh tapasya', getting into a banyan-tree like formation to attain something great, finding the 'road to God' and detailed notes about tying feet and hands, and covering mouths to appease God.

More morbid details emerged as it was found in the notes that Lalit Singh Chundawat, Narayan Devi's younger son, had started getting "visitations" from his father, who had died in 2007" and it was on his instructions that from March this years, notes about replicating "badh tapasya" were being written.

It had also mentioned that the members would not die and Lalit's father's spirit would come and save them.