: Police on Saturday arrested a senior private insurance company official in connection with the death of six family members in the village of Ballana Ambala.
On Sunday, Balkrishan Thakur, who currently holds the position of senior company executive in Ambala and is a permanent resident of Gurugram, will appear before a magistrate, according to a police spokesman.
Six family members, including two underage girls, were found dead on Friday at their home. The 34-year-old man, who is suspected to have strangled his elderly parents, 30-year-old wife and two underage daughters before hanging himself, was the manager of the Yamunanagar branch of the company and reported to Thakur.
The deceased mentioned Thakur’s name along with one Kavi Narula, owner of a private two-wheeler agency in Yamunanagar, in a suicide note found in the house.
According to the note, the man claimed that Thakura and Narula were demanding ₹ 10 lakhs from him is “forced” and he also had fears that if the amount was not paid, they could harm his family.
The note also mentioned the equal distribution of land and money belonging to him and his father between his two nephews.
Ambala Police Superintendent Jashandeep Singh Randhawa said: “According to the initial investigation, there was some unsettled amount between the insurance company and the car agency that was asking for money that was not being paid. Details will become clear as the investigation progresses.”
Investigators said the pending transaction included some coupons that were mutually agreed upon between the companies, the amount of which is still unconfirmed.
Eventually the coupons were given away or used elsewhere by the deceased, and instead the agency demanded the money while the boss asked for the matter to be settled, which should have led to the whole incident, as it became known.
Meanwhile, the village, located 8 km from the district headquarters, remained abandoned and deserted. Relatives and neighbors demanded “justice” for the departed family. All family members were perceived as introverts with a clean image.
However, it remains a mystery how the man strangled his family members unaided, even when the calls went late into the night, probably due to the birthday of the youngest daughter and the fact that the man passed the garden shovel to a neighbor around 6 in the morning without opening the door. the main gate, the sources said.
An autopsy performed at the district civilian hospital ruled out any foul play, but there is a growing suspicion that the family may have been given some kind of poisonous substance, as will become clear after examining the insides. Some samples of food and milk were taken from the house by the police on Friday.
Political leaders such as INLD chief O.P. Chautala and former trade union minister Venod Sharma also met with grieving relatives and offered their condolences. THE END