Overview
- Vadodara police identified the dead as Aarti Soni (50) and her adult children Nilkanth (27) and Jalak (24) and said all three were found hanging from separate ceiling fans at their Mandvi-area home.
- Authorities said they recovered no suicide note and described the motive as unknown while treating the case as an active investigation.
- Deputy Commissioner Andrew Macwan provided initial details to reporters and said investigators will rely on postmortem results and on-scene evidence to establish timing and cause.
- Officials noted as a preliminary detail that Aarti Soni’s husband died of a heart attack about a year earlier and that police will question relatives, friends and household staff as part of the probe.
- The family ran an Ayurveda hospital and a manufacturing unit, and friends say there were no obvious signs of distress; investigators are examining business and personal records for possible context.