Freedom fighter's widow, 2 children end lives over ‘financial issues' and ‘injustice'

Three family members of a freedom fighter ended their lives due to “financial problems” by consuming poison at their Vashi home on Saturday, the police said. A note purportedly signed by the three — Mohini Kamwani (87), her son Dilip (67) and her physically challenged daughter Kanta (63) — states that they were ending their lives over “injustice”.

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Earlier, Mohini had told the media that her husband, Naraindas Kamwani, had participated in the Quit India movement with Gandhiji.

Senior inspector of Vashi police station, Ramesh Chavan, said that Dilip had called up the police control room around 7.30 am on Saturday. “He said that he, his mother and sister had consumed poison due to financial problems, and were experiencing discomfort.”