Burari recap: 'Financial crisis' force 7 of Jharkhand family to commit mass suicide

Ranchi: In another mysterious case of death, seven members of a family were found dead in their home in Ranchi on Monday.

The deceased, Deepak Kumar Jha allegedly committed suicide along with his parents, wife, two children and brother.

According to reports, police found the bodies of brothers hanging from ceiling fan while the rest of the family was found dead draped in a blanket on two joint mattresses in one room.

Police said two wooden stools in an upside down were also found.

The dead were identified as Shashi Kumar Jha, 65, a retired railway employee, his wife Gayatri Devi, 60, along with their sons Deepak Jha, 40, and Rupesh Jha, 39, Deepak’s wife Soni Jha, 38, and their children one-year-old son Jagu and six-year-old daughter Drishti.

According to the landlord, Jha wanted to set up his own business but was steeped in debt and Rupesh Jha, his younger brother was unemployed.

According to some neighbours, the family was facing a huge financial crisis and the treatment of the youngest member of the family may have driven them to commit suicide.

Anish Gupta, Senior police officer said, “It seems a case of suicide but let the investigations get over.”

Deputy inspector of police said that they have found two suicide notes, one for 15 pages and other of two pages but refused to share the details. He also said prima facie investigations reveal that brothers killed the five members of the family and later hanged themselves.

The bodies were found by a school girl who went and knocked at the door as school van of Deepka Jha’s daughter kept honking but got no response.

In incident comes, month after 11 members of a family in Delhi’s Burari were found hanging in their home on July 1. From number of diaries found, getting material for their own suicide, investigators have said that mass suicide was driven by blind faith that the ‘ritual’ would help them to attain salvation.