Three of family found hanging inside their flat in IIT-Delhi campus

NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old senior lab assistant, his mother and wife were found dead in mysterious circumstances in their flat inside the residential quarters of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, on Friday night.

The three, identified as

Gulshan Das

(35), his wife

Sunita

(32) and mother

Kanta

(68) were found hanging in three different rooms of the third-floor flat by the police. The cops reached the flat after the man's mother-in-law made a

PCR

call when her daughter failed to answer her phone calls.

No suicide note has been found from the flat and the bodies bore no external injuries as per the preliminary probe. A magisterial probe has been initiated and a board of doctors is being constituted to conduct the autopsies to ascertain the exact cause of death.