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The deceased were Ramaraju , 54, his wife Madhavi , 50, and their son Shashank Raju, 24. At around 3.30 am, Shashank messaged his friend Ravi, informing him that his family decided to end their lives, according to police. Ravi saw the message at around 8 am and immediately tried calling Shashank.
Police found a suicide note in the sofa of the hall, which was written by Shashank and signed by his father.
“In the suicide note they mentioned that financial problems to be the reason behind the extreme step,” the additional DCP said. As there was no response, Ravi rushed to Shashank’s house and found the door unlocked.
During the preliminary probe, police found that the family operated two restaurants in Ramanthapur and Mallepally and incurred about Rs 1.5 crore loss. “They closed the resturants about a year ago due to losses.
We suspect that pressure started mounting from those who had given them money and the victims decided to end their lives,” said an investigator.
Police shifted the bodies for postmortem after registering a case under section 194 (suspicious death) of the BNSS. MSID:: 128756804 413 | The other two died due to hanging.
We are waiting for a final postmortem report,” said a senior police official. The bodies were handed over to the family after the autopsy. “After the postmortem, forensic medicine experts gave a short opinion saying that Madhavi could have been smothered to death.