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A day after the bodies of a 55-year-old bedridden woman and her two daughters, aged 30 and 26, were discovered in a bed in their two-bedroom ground-floor apartment at Vasant Apartment near Basant Gaon in South Delhi, police said they discovered the apartment closed from the outside with doors and windows sealed with aluminum foil, plastic sheets and clothing, a six-page suicide note and a cautionary note stuck on one of the walls of the house.
“Too much fatal gas. . . carbon monoxide inside. It is flammable, ismein aag lag sakti hain (can catch fire). Ventilate the room by opening the window and opening the fan. Do not light matches, candles or nothing! Be careful when the curtain as the room is full of harmful gases. Do not inhale. Open the interior window from the outside,” reads the note allegedly written by the occupants of the house.
According to police, according to an initial investigation, it appears that the 3 women suffocated to death when 4 small burning coal stoves were discovered inside the room. In addition, the button of a fuel cylinder for cooking was also discovered partially open. This, according to police, explains the note as any attempt to appease an attack or a candle would possibly have sparked a fire.
Officers connected to the investigation said the three victims were exposed to carbon monoxide from coal stoves and LPG from the bottle, either of which would possibly have caused the suffocation. However, they said they were waiting for the autopsy report. find out the cause of death.
One researcher said the space was sealed with a cloth attached to the iron mosquito net on the windows. It was also covered with constant aluminum foil with duct tape, he said. Police suspect the ventilation was intentionally cut off to prevent harmful gases from escaping from the room. , as well as to prevent other people from taking a look inside, the officer said.
The alleged suicide note spoke of a failed “suicide pact” that had been made by members of the circle of relatives about a year ago, the disorders faced by the circle of relatives and discussed apologies to neighbors, especially a maid who visited the circle of relatives and enjoyed. Family members did not blame anyone for their excessive gait, police said in mentioning the alleged note.
The notes and other pieces recovered from the apartment were sent to the Forensic Laboratory (FSL) for review, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southwest) Manoj C.
On Saturday at 8:55 p. m. , the president of the Vasant Apartment Resident Welfare Association (RWA) called police that an apartment in his community was closed inside, and the woman and her two daughters who lived there did not respond, despite repeated knocking on the door or windows. A team from Vasant Vihar police station went there and found that the windows were sealed from the inside. The staff cut some of the steel mesh, fabric, aluminum foil, and plastic sheet to take a look. inside the window.
“Smoke came out of the hole. They knocked down the gate, entered the apartment and discovered the 3 bodies,” the RWA president said, adding that the incident surprised the neighbors.
A neighbor who asked not to be identified said the circle of relatives had been “in monetary and emotional distress” since the death of the wife’s husband due to Covid-19 in June last year. Aside from him, the other members of the family circle had also tested positive and struggled to locate oxygen bottles, medicines and beds at the time of the pandemic wave last year, the neighbor said.
“The 55-year-old head of household died in a public hospital while we were preparing an oxygen bottle for the other family members in her apartment. They survived the Covid wave, but the eldest daughter never fully recovered. She was worried about her father’s death and also bedridden like her mother. It was the youngest daughter who helped the two survive,” the neighbor said.
The maid, who had only been with the circle of relatives for about 10 years and the last to speak to the youngest daughter, said the circle of relatives went into debt because they could not afford the groceries they had bought from two neighbors. The circle of relatives had promised to pay the fees of one of the merchants on Saturday. The merchant went to get the cash in the evening but no one answered. He informed me and asked the locals to check the circle. of relatives,” the assistant said, asking to remain anonymous.
Three relatives who came to claim the bodies after the autopsy said they spoke to the youngest daughter on the phone, but she never told them about the disorders facing the circle of relatives.
“We had helped her financially when her father died. The circle of relatives owned the adjoining apartment and rented it. We didn’t know she had asked the tenant to leave the apartment in December,” said a relative who asked not to be identified.
Mental health professionals said neighbors or relatives went to contact the circle of relatives as soon as they walked away or alerted police or appropriate agencies.
“In such a situation, RWA or neighbors deserve to tell the police or seek the help of intellectual fitness professionals, who can interact with other people in distress and help relieve their intellectual stress. I firmly believe that the government deserves to expand a policy that allows fitness professionals to interfere in the lives of others with intellectual disorders. Only early diagnosis and help can prevent such tragic incidents,” said Rajat Mitra, a clinical psychologist.
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