3 of a family commit suicide by consuming pesticide

SALEM

: Three members of a family, one of them a woman, committed suicide by consuming food mixed with

pesticide

at Kalarampatty here on Tuesday morning after some people duped them of Rs 5 lakh.


The Shevapet police have registered a case and initiated inquiry.

The deceased were identified as K Sivaraman, 77, of Kalarampatty, his wife Pushpa, 66, and their elder son Babu, 45, who was blind. Sivaraman was employed as a nursing assistant with a clinic at Gugai.

Around 9am on Tuesday, neighbours grew suspicious when no one came out of Sivaraman’s house, which remained closed. When they knocked on the main door, there was no response from inside. One of them then peeped throw a window gap and found Sivaraman, his wife and son on the floor with Frothing at mouth. They immediately alerted the Shevapet police, who broke open the door and sent the bodies to the Salem Government Mohan

Kumaramangalam

Medical College hospital for postmortem.

During inquiry, police learned that Sivaraman had given Rs 5 lakh as loan to a few people. “They have not returned the money to Sivaraman as promised,” a police officer said.

Sivaraman and his wife were upset over this. “Besides, their son Babu was not married as he was blind,” police said.

Police are taking a list of people who had borrowed money from Sivaraman. “We will take action against them if they are found guilty,” police said.