‘Hadn’t been in touch for 15 years’: Family of woman, two sons who died by suicide in Kalkaji

Anuradha’s uncle, meanwhile, shouted: “If it happens in your family, what will you say about it?”

According to police, their probe showed that Anuradha and her sons were deep in debt, running into lakhs, and owed money to 40-50 people. “They moved to the flat in G block in August 2023. Since then, they have been surviving on borrowed money. They took anything between Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 from multiple people,” a police officer claimed.

Another police officer claimed that as per the rent agreement of the flat, the rent was Rs 34,000 a month for the five-room apartment but the family only paid up in the first couple of months before defaulting. They had allegedly not paid the rent for nearly two years.

“After months of haggling with the family, the flat owner, who lives in Mumbai, asked his lawyer to go to court to evict them…,” the police officer said.

On Friday afternoon, a team comprising a bailiff and local policemen visited the house to execute the court order for eviction. After receiving no response, they used a duplicate key to open the door, only to find the macabre scene.

“Anuradha and the younger son were found in the drawing room, while the elder son was found in the bedroom,” a police officer said.

A one-and-a-half page suicide note was allegedly recovered in which the deceased blamed financial crisis for taking the extreme step. “… In December 2023, the husband had rented this house, located on the third floor of the residential building…,” an officer said.

The bodies were shifted to the mortuary at AIIMS for further proceedings under Section 194 of BNSS, police said.