A family’s fall from debt and deception to death

Trigger warning: The following story has references to suicide. For the residents of Atal Sur Lane in Kolkata’s Tangra area, it was a usual lazy morning until 9 a.m. Then, police vehicles started arriving. The two women are the wives of the two survivors of the car accident which occurred a few hours ago under the Garfa police station area,” Verma briefed media people, who had flocked to the gates of the house. On February 20, a senior officer of the Kolkata police told a group of journalists at the Lalbazar Police Headquarters that debt and financial distress may have been the reason for the family to take the extreme step. In the statement made to the police from the hospital, the brothers have claimed that all six in the family had consumed the ‘dessert’ after dinner on February 17, as part of a suicide attempt.