In a shocking incident, the parents and brother of a girl who eloped with her lover from a different caste and married him, committed mass suicide by jumping into well in Vivekananda Nagar locality of Gadchiroli town in eastern Maharashtra on Monday.
Devastated after hearing that their 24-year-old daughter eloped with her boyfriend and married him in a nearby temple on Saturday, Ravindra Nagorao Vargantiwar (50) and his wife VaIshali (43), along with their son Sairam (19), plunged into a well.
Acting on the information received from the local residents, the police rushed to the mishap site and extricated the three bodies from the well and sent them for post-mortem.
The police investigations have revealed that the girl, whose parents and brother committed mass suicide, was in love a boy from the neighbourhood belonging to different caste for quite some time. On Saturday, she told her that she would marry the boy whom she loved.
However, her father told her in unequivocal terms that he did not approve her proposed inter-caste marriage with her lover. Unmindful of the opinion expressed by her father, the daughter left home and married the boy at a nearby temple.
After hearing the news of her inter-caste marriage, her upset parents and brother took the extreme step of jumping in a nearby well.