Delhi shocker: Man kills wife and 2 sons, tries to kill self over financial woes
In a shocking incident reported from Delhi’s Mohan Garden, a 38-year-old man allegedly killed his 35-year-old wife, and two sons, aged five years and three months, before attempting to die by suicide at their home on Sunday.
The man, identified as Rajesh Kumar, sent a suicide note around 5 am to his friends on their WhatsApp group, one of whom alerted his brother. The brother, a resident of the same neighbourhood, called the police, who arrived at the scene around 6 am, broke down the door to Kumar’s house and rushed him to a hospital before he could bleed to death.
“In that suicide note, Kumar wrote of severe financial woes that led to him killing his family and attempting to harm himself,” deputy commissioner of police (Dwarka) Harshvardhan said.
According to the DCP, the note explained how his business failed because of certain employees, about the money he loaned out to some people, about being cheated by others who promised to help him obtain loans, and a bounced cheque. “We will investigate those aspects,” Harshvardhan said.
Until Covid-19 pandemic struck, Kumar was managing a firm that gave certain services for ISO certifications. But over the last couple of years, he ran a grocery store a few hundred metres from his home, police said.
“He is undergoing treatment at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, and is likely to survive. Given how deeply he slit his wrist, it is surprising he survived,” the DCP said.
Kumar has been charged for murder at Mohan Garden police station in Dwarka district. He is yet to recover enough to be able to talk to the police.
Kumar lived with his wife, two sons, and his parents in a rented apartment in Vipin Garden, a middle-income neighbourhood near Uttam Nagar. “They paid Rs13,300 as monthly rent and were staying here for the last four years. We never saw them unduly worried about money,” said their landlord, SP Verma.
Police said according to their initial investigation, Kumar’s elderly parents slept through the incident and only woke up when police broke down their door around 6 am.
“Kumar sent a long message to a WhatsApp group of his school friends around 5am. One of them called his brother who informed the police,” said the DCP.
The police’s calls to open the door yielded no response from inside the house, so they broke the door. “Kumar’s father is over 80-years-old and is bed-ridden and practically immobile. We found his mother, around 75-years-old, had fallen on the floor in her bedroom,” the DCP said. “We are being sensitive to their age and trauma,” the officer said.
As per the Police, they discovered the three dead bodies beside each other on the bed in the other room and Kumar unconscious on the floor. While a still-breathing Kumar was taken to a hospital, the bodies of the other three were sent to a mortuary.
Family members expressed their shock over the incident and said they did not sense anything adrift. “I spoke to my sister between 12am and 1am on Sunday. Her baby had turned three months old on Saturday and everything seemed well,” said Kumar’s brother-in-law, Akhilesh.
Kumar’s wife’s family alleged that more people were involved in the tmurder. “Police found a pair of gloves at the murder scene. There seems more to this,” said Akhilesh.
The DCP confirmed that gloves were found at the scene, but said they were not used. “They were found in a packet. We will interrogate Kumar when he recovers,” said Harshvardhan.
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