Overview
- Tenant Satyendra Sharma, his wife Rajni, and their two children were found unconscious in their ground-floor quarters in Gola ka Mandir after suspected overnight exposure to toxic fumes.
- Four-year-old Vaibhav died on Monday and his 13-year-old sister died on Tuesday during treatment, while the parents remain critical after being moved from RIMS to New JAH Hospital.
- Police say the fumes likely originated from fumigant tablets kept with stored wheat in another part of the house by landlord Shivkumar/Shri Krishna Yadav.
- Investigators seized the wheat and tablets for forensic analysis, will question the pesticide seller, and have registered a case of unnatural death.
- A senior officer told TOI the tablets were celphos and that a cooler near the grain might have directed fumes toward the family’s rooms.