New Delhi, July 8: Even a week after the mysterious Burari deaths, the police has yet to come out with an answer to the puzzle related to the alleged mass suicide.
The police is delving into occult, psychology, superstition and latest investigative techniques to crack one of the most sensational cases in the national capital in the recent times. It’s been a week since 11 members of the Burari-based Chundawat family were found dead under mysterious circumstances inside their house.
At the centre of all this is a family, the neighbours remember as “sweet, helpful and religious”, one that was looking forward to Priyanka Bhatia’s marriage, “the first wedding among the children” and had even started preparations for the big day that was scheduled in December. When people were lazing around in the comfort of their homes, news channels suddenly started flashing about the deaths of 11 members of a family in north Delhi’s Burari.
With their faces covered in pieces of white cloth and mouths taped and hands and legs tied, a video showing 10 members hanging, was anything but gory. The family matriarch was found lying in another room with ligature marks on her neck. ‘Was it a murder or a suicide?’, ‘If it was a murder, who were the persons involved in executing such a brutal murdered and what was the motive?, ‘If the family had committed suicide, what could be the reason that could have driven 11 members to take such an extreme step?’ — myriad questions like these are doing the rounds but neither the investigators nor the family’s close ones had any clue.
The family members kept alleging that it was a murder but found it hard to point to a motive while dismissing suicide theories saying that the family was a “prosperous one” and had no “financial issues”. The investigators registered a murder case since the 77-year-old Narayan Devi was found lying in a room on the floor, and initially it was suspected she had been strangulated but the initial autopsy report suggested that all the members had died of hanging, more or less cementing the fact that it was a case of suicide.
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