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5 of family in suicide pact
5 of family in suicide pact, a groundnut trader in the Housing Board Colony in the town, Babu (40), committed suicide along with four members of his family on Tuesday.
- Trader ends life with family members
- He incurred debt worth over Rs 30 lakh
- Money-lender’s barb instigates him
Guntakal (Anantapur): Following his creditor’s barb that why he was living unable to pay his debt and also his taunt to write off the debt should he take his life, a groundnut trader in the Housing Board Colony in the town, Babu (40), committed suicide along with four members of his family on Tuesday.
The deceased include his wife Rajeswari (28), daughter Yasaswini (3), son Navneeth (2) and mother-in-law Jayalakshmi. Before the three elders committed suicide by hanging, the couple allegedly strangled the children to death.
Jayalakshmi asked her son, Kranthi (17), to drop her husband Srinivasulu at the railway station in the morning. When he returned, he found them dead. His screams alerted the neighbours who informed the police.
Babu ’s family had been residing in the colony along with their parents. The trader was said to have been struggling to repay the loans. Seeing his plight, his mother-in-law arranged the credit. Besides, Babu had taken a loan of Rs 2 lakh from a local money-lender Ramesh. After the repayment period lapsed, he allegedly took away Babu’s Innova. However, the police intervened and persuaded Ramesh to return the vehicle, after extracting an agreement from Babu that he would repay the loan.
