Couple committed suicide after poisoning 2 sons ; cyber hacking and online loan trap
Four members of a family died by suicide in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal on Thursday. According to the police, the husband and the wife seemed to have hanged themselves after poisoning their children, over a debt.
The police also said they recovered a suicide note and a packet of sulphate pills from the spot.
The incident took place in the Neelbad area of the city.
Commenting on the incident, SP Chandra Prakash Pandey said the deceased children were aged 8 and 3.
The deceased couple worked for a private insurance company.
The suicide note found on the spot narrated the couple’s ordeal. Here’s what it read –
“I can’t understand what to do and what not to do. I don’t know what has befallen our small, lovely family. We want to apologise to our family members. Due to my mistake, all the people associated with me have suffered a lot,” the suicide note mentioned.
“We were living happily with our family. We had no worries or concerns. But in April, I received a message on my phone about an online job opportunity. Then I received another message on Telegram. Due to some extra money and my needs, I agreed to do additional work. I didn’t have much time to spare, so I started doing this job.”
“Initially, I benefited a little from it, but gradually I got stuck in a quagmire. Whenever I had a little time, I would start working on that job. Eventually, the workload became so overwhelming that I couldn’t keep track of the money I had invested in it. I couldn’t even use that money at home, and the pressure of work increased significantly.”
“Then I started receiving messages asking me to complete the order and withdraw my commission (money). But it was a quagmire from which it was difficult to escape. When all my money ran out, the company started asking me to take a loan. I refused because my credit was already so bad that I couldn’t get a loan from anywhere. But at the insistence of the company, I made an attempt and ended up getting a loan.”
