A garment business man and his wife were found hanging from the ceiling and the bodies of their two children were also recovered from their house by the police in Imli Bazar here in the wee hours of Friday.
The incident which rocked the city came to the light at midnight Thursday, when neighbours of the deceased family felt intense odour coming from the top floor of Narayan Trade building located in Imli Bazar locality.
On receiving information, the police reached the house on the top floor of Narayan Trade building, near Arpan Nursing Home, and broke open the door.
The police found the bodies of Sachin Jain (40) and his wife Rashmi Jain (35) hanging from the ceiling of the house in one room. They found the bodies of the Jain couple’s sons, Aman Jain (11) and Adi Jain (4), on the beds in other rooms. The bodies of all the four had decayed. Police suspect that the incident might have taken place three days back. Police sources informed that Sachin Jain who runs a shop of readymade garments in the same building had gone to his brother, Surendra Jain’s residence in New Palasia last Saturday and after that his mobile phone remained switched off. According to neighbours of the building, for the past three days they had not been seeing Sachin and his family members. It was only on Thursday night, when intense foul smell started spreading from the top floor, they went to the house and found the odour was coming from the house, and informed the police.
The bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination. The reason for the suicide is not known but police suspect that a family squabble may have led to the tragedy. According to neighbours, the deceased Sachin Jain had no tiff with anyone and was of a quiet nature. He is a native of Sagar, while his wife hailed from Nagpur. The deceased ran a readymade garments shop, from the same building.