Seven members of a family found dead inside parked car in Haryana's Panchkula; suicide suspected
Seven members of a family, including three children, allegedly died by suicide inside a car parked near a vacant plot in Haryana's Panchkula late Monday.
According to the Panchkula police, the deceased have been identified as businessman Deshraj Mittal and his wife, their son Praveen Mittal and his wife, and Praveen's two teenage daughters and a son.
The preliminary cause of death appears to be poisoning, and the police's probe so far indicates it was an alleged case of suicide.
The police said they received a call around midnight about a few people sitting in a car in suspicious circumstances outside a house in Sector 27. After which, Dial 112's Emergency Response Vehicles (ERVs) reached the spot, and found seven people in the car, most of them in a semi-conscious state. All of them were rushed to a nearby Ojas Hospital by the police.
VIDEO | Panchkula, Haryana: Seven members of a family from Dehradun found dead inside a car. Police investigating the case.
DSP Panchkula Himadri Kaushik says, 'Our forensic team has reached the spot. We are analysing… scanning the car thoroughly to know the reasons behind the… pic.twitter.com/IetVgT6ojz
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The police said their preliminary probe showed that the Mittal family was under heavy debt. They hailed from Uttarakhand and owned a tours and travels business in which the family suffered heavy losses.
Himadree Kaushik, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Panchkula, Vikram Nehra, Assistant Commissioner of Police, and other senior officers reached the spot and later went to the hospital.
The police have informed the family's relatives about the deaths.
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