Noida doctor claims family Committed suicide due to harassment by daughter-in-law

Mangalore Today News Network

Ranchi, Oct 13, 2016:  The five members of a Noida-based family committed suicide due to depression caused by alleged threats and harassment from his daughter-in-law, the police said today.

Police said the bodies of the five family members, who were found in a flat in Ranchi on October 9, took overdose of sleeping medicine to commit suicide.

Sukanta Sarkar, the Noida-based doctor who was found injured with multiple wounds along with the bodies, told the police that the family was suffering from depression and initially thought of killing themselves in Noida itself, but later decided to travel to Ranchi and think over it.

The daughter-in-law did not travel with them to Ranchi. Mr Sarkar said he did try to convince the family members not to take the extreme step.

The family which included 63-year-old Sarkar, his wife Anjana (60), son Sameer (35), grand-daughter Sameeta (7), nephew’s wife Maumita (35) and her daughter Sumita (5), used to carry sleeping medicine with them due to depression.

Maumita was the sister of Sarkar’s daughter-in-law.

Between 10 and 11 PM of October 8, Mr Sarkar’s wife, son and nephew’s wife took overdose of the medicine through injections and then his wife injected it into their granddaughter and the nephew’s wife did the same to her daughter, the doctor claimed.

A little later all of them fainted and the doctor stabbed himself to end his life but ’unfortunately’ that did not happen, police said quoting Mr Sarkar.

The doctor alleged that his daughter-in-law used to threaten them to lodge a dowry case against them and accused her husband and father-in-law of having an illicit relation with Maumita, her sister.

Taking the side of his daughter-in-law, a Noida-based NGO also used to threaten the family, Mr Sarkar said.

He denied any conspiracy or role of any local person in the incident, police said.

Maumita’s husband, who lives in Bhopal, also came to Ranchi but did not stay with Mr Sarkar. Instead, he stayed up with another relative that night.

The police said the doctor is out of danger, and will be questioned regarding the case in two/three days.

The police said they were waiting for the post mortem report to corroborate the doctor’s claim.