Five members of a family, including three women and a two-year-old baby, were found dead in bushes and in a car parked along the Outer Ring Road near Narsingi under Cyberabad police station on Tuesday morning.
Cyberabad Police Commissioner Sandeep Shandaliya, who visited the scene told the media that it was a suspected case of suicide pact as the family was passing through financial difficulties. While the bodies of three women were found in the bushes, the bodies of father and two year old son were found in a car parked distantly on the Outer Ring Road.
Police said, the deceased were identified as 28 year old Prabhakar Reddy, his wife, 26 year old Madhavi, two year old son Vashisth. The other two women were Reddy's aunt lakshmi (42) and her daughter Sindhuja (16).
The family had left their home in Ameenpur village in Sangareddy district on Monday morning informing others that they were going on a picnic at Dindigul reservoir. last evening they called lakshmi's husband Ravinder Reddy over phone to inform him that the keys of the house were kept outside the house and they will return in the evening. But as they did not return till late in the night and phones were also switched off a missing case was lodged at the Ameenpur police station.
On Tuesday morning the local people alerted the Narsingi police about the three dead bodies in the bushes.
later during the search the police found two more bodies in the car. Sandeep Shandaliya said that on the Prima facie it was a case of suicide as a cake box and soft drink bottle was found with the traces of poison.
The bodies also had froth in the mouth indicating that they had consumed poison. There were no external injuries on them. Bodies were sent to Osmania Hospital mortuary for autopsy.
The police were investigating into the cause behind the suicide pact.
While Prabhakar Reddy was into share trading his uncle Ravinder Reddy was an employee of ITW Signode Company.
The police were befuddled why aunt and her daughter joined Prabhakar and his family in ending their lives.