Suffering from severe financial crunch, a 34-year-old man killed his two daughters by strangulation and committed suicide by hanging with the ceiling at Manikhedi under Gunga police station area on Thursday.
Police said that in the afternoon wife of deceased Bhagwan Singh found him hanging and her two unconscious daughters in the afternoon when she returned after treatment of her eldest daughter.
The daughters were rushed to hospital where they were declared dead who were identified as Gunjan (2) and Rani (5).
Addl SP Neeraj Soni said that the deceased was debt ridden and money provided by him was not refunded by Hukum Singh which was mentioned in the suicide note. The deceased killed her two daughters before committing suicide while his wife had gone to Peoples hospital for treatment of her eldest girl.
Family was under severe financial crisis as deceased was not able to meet his ends and goods of basic needs and food were not at home, he added. Two brothers of the deceased live in Obedullahganj. One of his brothers Arjun came to Gunga on Wednesday. He had gone with deceased’s wife to the hospital.
The deceased used to work as labour and fearing that after his death life of his daughters would worsen he strangulated them to death and later committed suicide by hanging with the ceiling.
After the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the post mortem.
The police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and started further investigation.
The person named in the suicide note would be searched in the investigation.