The five members of a family found dead at their home in Greater Noida are suspected to have died by suicide over a property dispute, police sources told NDTV on Sunday.
Mahesh’s sisters and a brother-in-law have now been taken into custody.
The police sources said that Mahesh had allegedly mixed poison in the noodles. An audio note has also been recovered from his phone, in which he blamed his two sisters and a brother-in-law for the deaths, police sources told NDTV.
She also alleged that she was thrown out of the house after her husband’s death and that Mahesh had assured her that the family would eventually live together again. Mahesh (37), his 35-year-old wife Lalita, their daughter Mishti (7), and sons Laddu (11) and Sakshat (3) were found dead in a room of their home in Nagla Shri Padam village around 8 am on Saturday. The case initially appeared to be of food poisoning as the family, which had gone to a local fair on Friday evening and returned home around 10 pm, had allegedly consumed noodles in dinner.
Neeraj, the sister-in-law of Mahesh, told NDTV that a long-standing dispute over the division of family property had caused tensions within the family.
