The deceased are believed to be from two families, and to have entered a suicide pact. Losses in the stock markets are suspected to be the reason.
The bodies of five persons, including three women and one toddler, were found near Kolluru on Hyderabad's outskirts on Tuesday.
The deceased are believed to be from two families, and to have entered a suicide pact. Locals saw the bodies and alerted the police, following which teams from the nearest police stations reached the spot.
The bodies were found near Outer Ring Road at Indrareddy Kanche in Shankarpally mandal of Rangareddy district on Tuesday. Three bodies were found in bushes, and two in a car two kilometres away. Three were women and two were men, including a two-year-old boy. Three were from one family and another two from another, and the two families were closely related.
The bodies were identified as those of Kondapuram Lakshmi, w/o Ravinder Reddy, 42, a housewife; Kondapuram Sindhu, d/o Ravinder Reddy, 16 yrs, student (inter 1st year at Sri Chaitanya College); Patlolla Prabhakar Reddy, s/o Mahipal Reddy, 35, online share trader; Patlolla Madhavi w/o Prabhakar Reddy, 27, houswife; and Vasisth Reddy, s/o Prabhakar Reddy, 2.
The police found near the dead bodies a cake mixed with poison, and bottles of water mixed with insecticide. The Cyberabad police came to the conclusion that the deceased had committed suicide by poisoning themselves.
Incidentally, a missing persons case was filed by Lakshmi's husband Ravinder Reddy in the Ameenpur police station on Monday night. Cyberabad Police Commissioner Sandeep Sandilya said that the case was that the family members, who went to see water falls, were missing. Ravinder Reddy said that he had filed a case in the Ameenpur police station on Monday night as the phones of all five members were switched off.
According to the police, Prabhakar Reddy was a realtor who was also in stock broking. Prabhakar Reddy's wife was Madhavi and son was Vasisth. Lakshmi was his aunt and Sindhuja was Lakshmi's daughter. Prabhakar Reddy had started from his residence on Monday afternoon, and informed his uncle Ravinder Reddy over the phone that they were all going to watch the Dindi project.
The police are suspecting that Prabhakar Reddy committed suicide as he had incurred heavy losses in the share markets. It is learnt that Prabhakar Reddy took almost a crore from his aunt Lakshmi. Ravinder Reddy however said that they didn't have any enmity with anybody and no doubts on anyone. He said that they had no financial problems, either.