Overview

• Shahapur Police registered a case after recovering a handwritten Marathi death note at the family’s Joshimal residence on Wednesday.
• Three family members, including 44-year-old goldsmith Santosh Kurudekar, his mother Suvarna and sister Mangala, died by suicide on Tuesday morning.
• Sunanda Kurudekar initially resisted ingesting poison but later consumed it and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
• The note alleges that Raju Kurudekar misappropriated 500 grams of the family’s gold, spread false theft rumors and subjected them to threats that intensified their financial distress.
• Authorities are probing both the fraud accusations against Raju and preliminary findings that Santosh spent hours persuading his mother and sisters into the suicide pact.