Five members of a family allegedly died by suicide in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Monday suspectedly thanks to an enormous financial burden, police said.
Their bodies were found hanging from the ceiling of their house in Tulsibil town along the Assam-West Bengal border, a senior policeman said.
The deceased were identified as Nirmal Pal (45), his wife Mallika (40) and their daughters Puja (25), Neha (17) and Dipa (15), Superintendent of Police Rakesh Raushan said.
“Prima facie, it appears to be a suicide case.
Preliminary investigation has found that Nirmal Pal, who ran an LPG outlet in Tulsibil market, had a financial burden of Rs 25-30 lakh. His eldest daughter was a personal school teacher,” he said.
A suicide note was also found but its contents aren’t immediately known, the officer said.
A trader within the market claimed Pal had collected an enormous sum of cash from people to supply LPG connections through his sub-agency but did not deliver on his promise thanks to the lockdown and therefore the change of rules by oil firms.
The Kokrajhar unit of the All Assam Bangali Yuba Chatra Federation, however, doubted “conspiracy” behind the alleged suicide and demanded a “proper probe” into the incident.
As soon because the incident came to light, owners of all shops and commercial establishments at Tulsibil town downed their shutters.
