BENGALURU: A 38-year-old software consultant and his wife committed suicide after killing their two children in Bengaluru on Sunday night. The financial burden and emotional stress are said to have forced the couple to take an extreme step.
Preliminary investigation suggested that Anup Kumar and Rakhi (35) poisoned their autistic daughter Anupriya, five, and son Priyansh, two, before hanging themselves. The family was from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh and was staying in a rented house in Sadashivanagar.
On Monday, when a woman employed by the couple to look after the children came to work, she discovered Anup hanging and raised the alarm. The neighbors ran in and found the others dead in another room. The woman, Reshma, told the police that she was asked to arrive a little early as the family had planned to leave for Puducherry. Police checked Kumar’s laptop and mobile phone and found that he had sent an email around midnight to his elder brother Amit.
Based on the contents of the mail and statements from people known to the family, police said Anup’s financial problems began after his maternal uncle Rakesh lured him to invest around Rs 25 lakh in a plot of land in Prayagraj to start a deposit. of gasoline in 2018. The business was not successful and his hard-earned money remained stagnant.
After Anupriya was admitted to a preschool, the couple got their daughter medically examined at the teachers’ insistence. The results suggested that she was autistic. Most of Anup’s salary was spent on his daughter’s treatment. The financial strain took a toll on his mental health. Based on circumstantial evidence, police said the couple had planned and prepared to take the extreme step.
