Daughter-in-Law’s Harassment Leads Family To Suicide 

Ranchi: Unable to endure the threats and harassment meted out to them by their daughter-in-law, five members of a doctor’s family allegedly committed suicide in a flat in Ranchi on October 9 through overdose of sleeping pills.

Sukanta Sarkar, the Noida based doctor who was found by the police with multiple injuries after his unsuccessful attempt to follow his family in death revealed to the police that the family was suffering from depression and initially thought of killing themselves in Noida itself, but later decided to travel to Ranchi and think over it.

The doctor alleged that his daughter-in-law used to threaten them to lodge a dowry case against them and accused her husband and father-in-law of having an illicit relation with Maumita, her sister. A Noida based NGO who took the side of the daughter-in-law also threatened the family, the doctor alleged.

Apart from the 63-year-old Sarkar, his wife Anjana (60), his son Sameer (35), his grand-daughter Sameeta (7), his nephew's wife Maumita (35) and her daughter Sumita (5), lost their lives. Maumita was the sister of Sarkar's daughter-in-law.

The police said the doctor was out of danger and they would question him in a couple of days. They were also awaiting the post-mortem report to corroborate the doctor’s claims.