Overview

• Police found the bodies of 62-year-old Bablu Ghosh, his 46-year-old wife Pratima and 13-year-old daughter Paushali at their Garedhar area residence around 2 a.m. on May 29.
• Authorities say Ghosh killed his wife and daughter before hanging himself after defaulting on loans from multiple creditors.
• The victims’ bodies have been sent to Imambara District Hospital for postmortem examination.
• Investigators report that Ghosh had previously worked in a tin box factory, driven a Toto and run a small shop before borrowing heavily as a bookie.
• Police note similarities with a February incident in Kolkata’s Tangra neighbourhood where financial ruin triggered a suspected family suicide pact.