Nearly two years after a 43-year-old woman committed suicide after killing her two specially-abled children at her residence in Mira Road, the police registered a case of murder against the dead mother on Tuesday. According to the police the incident was reported from an apartment in the Narendra Park area of Naya Nagar on 6, September 2021.
The woman, a divorcee who was staying with her 75-year-old father, gave sleeping pills to her 20-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son (names withheld) before strangulating both to death. She later ended her life by consuming an overdose of sleeping pills and stabbing herself in the stomach with a kitchen knife. The bodies were discovered by the woman’s father on September 7, following which the Naya Nagar police were informed about the incident. While bottles of pills were found beside the bodies of the children, the woman was found in a pool of blood in the kitchen.
Police statements confirm that the 43 year old was under mental depression
After recording the statements of the woman’s father and six others including neighbours and the security personnel of the building, the investigating team learnt that the woman was under mental depression due to her divorce and growing concerns about the future of her mentally ill children. The viscera samples of the deceased were preserved for a detailed forensic analysis.
The team recently got reports which made it clear that the children had died due to asphyxia as a result of strangulation. The reports stated that the woman had died of haemorrhage and shock due to the stab injuries on her stomach. Based on the medical reports, the police registered a case under section 302 (murder) of the IPC against the dead mother on Tuesday.
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