CCTV footage confirms police theory of mass suicide
Somreet Bhattacharya & Sidharth Bhardwaj TNN
New Delhi:05.07.2018
The footage of CCTV cameras installed in the lane where 11 members of a family were found hanging in north Delhi’s Sant Nagar seem to have confirmed the police theory that it was an organised mass suicide, sources said on Wednesday.
The footage of 10pm on Saturday shows Bhavnesh Bhatia’s daughter Neetu and her mother, Savita, carrying four plastic stools towards their house. These stools were used in the hanging.
Another clip shows Lalit’s son, Shivam, accepting the food from the delivery boy around 10.35pm. He then heads out to the plywood shop on the ground floor from where he picks an electric wire bundle and walks upstairs with it at 10.39pm. At 10.57pm, Bhavnesh is seen coming out of the house with the family’s pet dog Jacky and taking it for a walk. He is seen returning at 11.04pm. The dog was later taken to the terrace and tied there.
Going by circumstantial evidence, the family performed the havan after this and ate rotis handed out by their mother. The family hanged themselves between 12.45-1am after the rituals were over, police said. According to the autopsy board report the time of death is around 1am. The CCTV footage has been sent for forensic analysis to rule out tampering. This, along with the autopsy report, will be crucial pieces of evidence for police. The shop from which the stools were bought has also been traced. The owner confirmed that the two women had bought four black stools from him.
The investigating teams had earlier scanned through footage of 16 CCTV cameras located around the house and found no outsider had entered the premises at night. The footage of Sunday morning showed that a supply truck had stopped outside the general store at 6am and unloaded dairy supplies, but no one was seen coming out of the house.
At 7.14am, Gurucharan Singh, a neighbour, is seen going inside the house and coming out in haste just 35 seconds later. Crime branch has also found some papers and ingredients for the puja stuffed in drawers in the temple inside the house.
REGULAR APPEARANCE, HORRIFIC DEATHS: Relatives got this collage made of the 11-member Bhatia family, all of whom were found dead in their Delhi home in what’s believed to be mass suicide
Notes in diary may’ve been written by niece
The handwriting analysis of the dairies recovered from the house shows that it was probably Pratibha’s daughter, Priyanka, 33, who had been writing the notes on her uncle Lalit’s instructions. On Wednesday, police said that they had recovered 11diaries with the mysterious instructions. Police have found two to three other handwritings in the diaries indicating that Lalit may have dictated the instructions to his wife or the children while he claimed to be in a state of trance. Lalit had strictly instructed his family members not to speak about him in public or even to the extended family. He had promised to help them attain “great strengths” if they followed his advice. The family seemed to have trusted him blindly after he started predicting losses and gains in their lives. TNN
Somreet Bhattacharya & Sidharth Bhardwaj TNN
New Delhi:05.07.2018
The footage of CCTV cameras installed in the lane where 11 members of a family were found hanging in north Delhi’s Sant Nagar seem to have confirmed the police theory that it was an organised mass suicide, sources said on Wednesday.
The footage of 10pm on Saturday shows Bhavnesh Bhatia’s daughter Neetu and her mother, Savita, carrying four plastic stools towards their house. These stools were used in the hanging.
Another clip shows Lalit’s son, Shivam, accepting the food from the delivery boy around 10.35pm. He then heads out to the plywood shop on the ground floor from where he picks an electric wire bundle and walks upstairs with it at 10.39pm. At 10.57pm, Bhavnesh is seen coming out of the house with the family’s pet dog Jacky and taking it for a walk. He is seen returning at 11.04pm. The dog was later taken to the terrace and tied there.
Going by circumstantial evidence, the family performed the havan after this and ate rotis handed out by their mother. The family hanged themselves between 12.45-1am after the rituals were over, police said. According to the autopsy board report the time of death is around 1am. The CCTV footage has been sent for forensic analysis to rule out tampering. This, along with the autopsy report, will be crucial pieces of evidence for police. The shop from which the stools were bought has also been traced. The owner confirmed that the two women had bought four black stools from him.
The investigating teams had earlier scanned through footage of 16 CCTV cameras located around the house and found no outsider had entered the premises at night. The footage of Sunday morning showed that a supply truck had stopped outside the general store at 6am and unloaded dairy supplies, but no one was seen coming out of the house.
At 7.14am, Gurucharan Singh, a neighbour, is seen going inside the house and coming out in haste just 35 seconds later. Crime branch has also found some papers and ingredients for the puja stuffed in drawers in the temple inside the house.
REGULAR APPEARANCE, HORRIFIC DEATHS: Relatives got this collage made of the 11-member Bhatia family, all of whom were found dead in their Delhi home in what’s believed to be mass suicide
Notes in diary may’ve been written by niece
The handwriting analysis of the dairies recovered from the house shows that it was probably Pratibha’s daughter, Priyanka, 33, who had been writing the notes on her uncle Lalit’s instructions. On Wednesday, police said that they had recovered 11diaries with the mysterious instructions. Police have found two to three other handwritings in the diaries indicating that Lalit may have dictated the instructions to his wife or the children while he claimed to be in a state of trance. Lalit had strictly instructed his family members not to speak about him in public or even to the extended family. He had promised to help them attain “great strengths” if they followed his advice. The family seemed to have trusted him blindly after he started predicting losses and gains in their lives. TNN
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