Panchkula family suicide: Three kids among 7 dead, police suspect financial issues
Seven members of a family, comprising three minors, from Uttarakhand reportedly were found dead in a car parked on a vacant plot in Sector 27 of Panchkula in Haryana
- CHANDIGARH — Seven members of a family, comprising three minors, from
Uttarakhand reportedly were found dead in a car parked on a vacant plot in
Sector 27 of Panchkula in Haryana, police said on Tuesday.
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- Preliminary investigations indicate the family allegedly
committed suicide owing to mounting financial debt.
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- The dead included two minor girls, aged 12-13 years,
their brother aged 14, their parents and grandparents, said the police.
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- The police suspected that the family, who previously
lived in Chandigarh, had committed suicide.
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- All seven were found inside the same car, whose rear
windshield was covered with a towel, said Additional Commissioner of Police
Vikram Nehra.
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- He said when the victims were shifted to a nearby
hospital in Panchkula, only the children’s father was breathing. But he died
during treatment.
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- According to the police, two of the dead have been
identified as Praveen Mittal and his father, Deshraj Mittal.
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- Preliminary investigations suggest that the family may
have taken this step due to increasing financial strain.
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- A case has been registered, and further investigation is
underway.
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- Initial findings suggest the members died in a suicide
pact, but police have launched a full investigation to ascertain the
circumstances.
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- Speaking on the issue, DCP (Pandhkula) Himadri Kaushik,
who visited the crime scene, said that they have received information that six
people had been brought to Ojas Hospital. “When we reached there, we found out
that they are all dead. Another person was brought to the Civil Hospital,
Sector 6; he has also been declared dead. Prima facie, it looks like a matter
of suicide. All the investigating officers are at the spot. All of the deceased
are family members,” she said.
