Overview
- The victims were identified as 14-year-old Maunish, his mother Sudha, 38, and grandmother Muddamma (also reported as Madamma), 68.
- Investigators suspect the boy was killed before the two women died by suicide, with preliminary signs pointing to poisoning and no visible external injuries.
- No suicide note was found, the bodies were sent for post-mortem, and a forensic team is examining the house as officers question neighbours.
- Police say the family had heavy debts after losses in small food businesses, and both women had been working as domestic help while Sudha lived apart from her husband.
- Neighbours raised the alarm after the family did not emerge from their home; the family, originally from Tamil Nadu, had returned from a Dharmapuri temple visit on Sunday, and the deaths are believed to have occurred Monday morning around 9 a.m.