Police to study Burari suicide case to probe occult practices angle

The Delhi Police will study the 2018 Burari suicide case to see if there was any “occult practice” angle in the deaths of a man and his four daughters at a village in southwest Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area, officials said on Sunday.

They said that the case had raised concerns as the team found a red threat tied on the waist, hand and neck of the four girls. A box of sweets was also recovered from the spot. According to the police, Heera Lal Sharma, who worked as a carpenter at the Indian Spinal Injury Centre in Vasant Kunj for the last 28 years, and his four daughters - Neetu (26), Nikki (24), Neeru (23) and Nidhi (20) - took their lives under a suicide pact.

Police said that Sharma was struggling with emotional and financial stress after his wife died last year due to cancer.