The postmortem report of three members of a family, who were found hanging from the ceiling of a garage adjacent to their quarter at the Utkal University premises Vani Vihar here, has confirmed suicide as the reason of death.
The Commissionerate Police on Saturday received the autopsy report of 57-year-old Brajabandhu Acharya, his wife Pratibha (55) and son Biswajit (28), which revealed that they had hanged themselves one after another.
Brajabandhu was working as laboratory attendant in Statistics department in the university while his son Biswajit was doing secondhand vehicle business.
Biswajit had recently gone bankrupt after collecting more than `50 lakh from the market. When his customers demanded their money back, he found himself in the soup.
The whole family was in deep mental agony due to the financial bankruptcy of Biswajit, preliminary investigation had revealed.
The body of the trio was found hanging November 25.
However, police are trying to establish the exact reason of the death.