Kanota Tragedy: Cops question person named in suicide note

Jaipur: Kanota police questioned the person named in the suicide note of the Soni family against whom a case of abetment to suicide was registered, though no one has been arrested yet.

According to officials, the family members hung themselves simultaneously and their autopsies were done on Sunday. The four members were found hanging at their house on Saturday morning.

The deceased were identified as Yashwant Soni, 45, his wife Mamta Soni, 41, and their sons Ajit, 23, and Bharat, 21.

The father owned a jewellery shop in the Walled City area. The deceased were found hanging at their residence and police also found a suicide note according to which it appears that the family was under financial duress due to which they took this extreme step. A case of abetment to suicide has been registered against one person who was named in the suicide note. The person was apparently not returning the deceased’s money because of which they were unable to pay the lenders.

Rahul Jain, DCP, Jaipur East, said, “We have questioned the person who was named in the suicide note and apparently he owed the deceased somewhere between Rs 70 lakh-80 lakh and they had been asking for it for a while. We have not arrested anyone yet in the case.”

While the bodies of Yashwant and his two sons were found hanging in the courtyard of their residence, Mamta’s body was found hanging in one of the bedrooms. They all had used ‘sari’ to hang themselves and the case got more intriguing as the feet of the two sons were tied together loosely to ensure that the feet do not touch the ground, claimed officials, which gives rise to the possibility that they could have been hung by another person, though officials did not confirm it.