New Delhi: The recent gruesome case of five of a family found dead in southwest Delhi home has caused tremors in the capital city. It is still uncertain if the people found dead were victims of mass suicide or if the man murdered four of his daughters and then committed suicide. This would be the notion that drove the 46-year-old father in a CCTV video fetching a large bag believed to have contained a box of sweets. The CCTV video was recorded on September 24th and shows the man strolling around the neighborhood at approximately 7 in the evening, the same time that neighbors indicate they saw the family. The authorities also ponder upon the fact that the sweets looked as if they had been poisoned.
This emerged from neighbor’s complaints of a stench from the family’s third storey flat. Explorations were conducted on the same where the police found that the door was bolted from inside the house and got a box of sweets, pesticide and a substance which couldn’t be identified. An initial autopsy of the bodies could not persuade early medical findings of external forms of violence. One of the policemen who came into the house gave this account: “The father was in the first room lying on a cot.” They said that there was blood near his mouth.”
Police think that financial issues could have had an influence of the issue, which was expressed by the families of the deceased people. Police are also attempting to establish the series of events which took place, thinking that the father laced the sweets and juice with poison. Neighbours said the family was very reserved, and the daughters had numerous health problems. The man’s wife died from cancer in August, while the father, a former carpenter, has been out of work since January. The daughters at the time were 26, 24, 23, and 20 years old one of which was visually impaired.
The police are now looking at phone records and bank transactions in a bid to find out if there was any possible motive in the deaths. The case has somewhat resemblance to the Burari deaths that took place in 2018.
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