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Bengaluru Trio Found Dead in Suspected Debt-Linked Familicide; Autopsy Points to Grandmother’s Cardiac Arrest

Police are probing financial pressures linked to contacts named in a note recovered at the scene.

Overview

  • Police identified the deceased as Sudha, 38, her son Maunish, 14, and her mother Madamma, 68, found Monday morning at their Tavarekere home under Suddaguntepalya limits.
  • Investigators say preliminary findings indicate Sudha allegedly poisoned her son around 9 a.m. before consuming poison herself.
  • DCP Sara Fathima said postmortem has indicated the grandmother died of cardiac arrest, likely from shock after witnessing the collapse of her daughter and grandson.
  • Officers recovered a handwritten note listing phone numbers of people the family believed owed money, and they are verifying whether lender pressure contributed to the deaths.
  • Police cite mounting debts after losses in small ventures selling biryani, chips and milk, with the two women later working as domestic help, and have registered a case while forensic inquiry continues.