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Harassed, four of Pune family kill themselves

A family of four — aged parents and two sons — ended their lives by consuming poison at their residence in Bavdhan area of Pune on Thursday.

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A family of four — aged parents and two sons — ended their lives by consuming poison at their residence in Bavdhan area of Pune on Thursday.

The victims have been identified as AT Narayan, 65, his wife Indira, 60, elder son Vishnuvardhan, 35, and younger son Madhusudhan, 28.

The victims, in a signed five-page suicide note written in English, have blamed Sangita, Vishnuvardhan’s wife, of inflicting mental agony and trauma on them following which they decided to end their lives. Sangita, a management graduate, was at her parents’ place in Madurai when the incident took place.

The victims’ neighbours complained to the police about the foul smell emanating from the flat. It found all the four lying dead in the bedroom — the bodies of the father and the two sons on the floor and that of the mother on the bed. The police recovered a whisky bottle, two soda bottles and honey bottles. The police have registered a case of accidental death.

The police said that the family hails from Madurai and was settled in Pune for last five years. Vishnuvardhan worked as a software analyst with JP Morgan, a leading financial services firm, and was posted in Mumbai. His father is a retired government official of Tamil Nadu. Madhusudhan had recently returned to India after completing his masters in business management in the United States.

Vishnuvardhan too had worked abroad for a few years before coming back to India for his marriage in October 2010.
The police quoting the suicide note pointed out that the problem began after the company transferred him to Mumbai from Nigdi near Pune.

The police said that the suicide note dated March 20 was kept inside a file kept on a table on the drawing room. “They could have committed suicide on that day itself,” he said.

According to Pune DCP Dr Dnyaneshwar Chavan, the victims said in the suicide note that there was frequent fight between Vishnuvardhan and Sangita. “Since Vishnuvardhan was working in Mumbai, Sangita was insisting that the couple take a flat in Mumbai and stay there, which Vishnuvardhan refused to agree to,” Chavan said.

The dispute came to such a pass that Sangita walked out of the house and went to stay with her parents in Madurai.

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