In Burari like incident, 6 members of debt-ridden family commit suicide in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh
The family was under huge pressure due to debts and prolonged disease of the only earning member of the family.
A fortnight after shocking mass suicide of 11 members of a family in Delhi's Burari, a similar incident in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh has come to light where three generations of a family ended their lives, reportedly due to financial problems.
According to media reports, the family was under huge pressure due to debts and prolonged disease of the only earning member of the family. They were unable to pay their debts due to problems with the business.
Three generations of the family - grandparents, their son, daughter-in-law and the two grandchildren - were found dead on Sunday. Police said that while five of them were found hanging, the 8-year-old boy was pushed from the terrace.
A report by the New Indian Express said that while the eldest members of the family were in their late sixties, the son and daughter-in-law were in their forties and their children were 8 and 6 years old respectively.
The family was in dry fruits business but due to the illness of Naresh Maheshwari (40), the father of two children, the shop remained closed most of the time. Other members have been identified as Naresh's father Mahavir Maheswari (70), mother Kiran (65), wife Priti (38) and children Anjali (6) and Aman (8).
Police said that three suicide notes and a power of attorney have been recovered from their house.
The incident took place in an apartment near Khajanchi Talab in Hazaribagh town.
The incident comes over two weeks after a similar incident in Delhi where 11 members of a family were found dead in Burari area.
Ten of the 11 members of the deceased family were found hanging from an iron-mesh in the ceiling, while the body of 77-year-old Narayan Devi, the head of the family, was lying on the floor in another room of the house.
Her daughter Pratibha (57) and her two sons Bhavnesh (50) and Lalit (45) were among the deceased. Bhavnesh's wife Savita (48) and their three children - Maneka (23), Neetu (25), and Dhirendra (15) were also found dead. The others who were found hanging were Lalit's wife Tina (42), their 15-year-old son Dushyant and Pratibha's daughter Priyanka, who was engaged last month and was supposed to get married by year-end.
Notes recovered from the house indicated an occult practice. The cops, however, are yet to arrive at a conclusion.