Mass Suicide in Ranchi: Family of 7 found dead in home, schoolgirl found bodies

Ranchi : Yet again, after the mass suicide case of Delhi, similar case has been registered in Ranchi where seven members of a family, including two children, were found dead in their home on Monday. 

Identified as deepak Kumar Jha, the deceased who worked with a leading private company is believed to have allegedly committed suicide along with his parents, brother, wife and two children.

The police found the bodies of the two brothers hanging from the ceiling fan in their rented house. According to their house owner, A Mishra, 40-year-old Deepak Jha wanted to set up his own business but was engaged in debt. His younger brother, Rupesh Jha, 30, was unemployed.

Other family was found dead on a bed. Deepak Jha's son and daughter were among the dead.

However, no suicide note has been found and cops are still investigating the reason for suicide.

"Primarily it seems a case of suicide. Let the investigations get over," said Anish Gupta, a senior Ranchi police officer.

The mysterious suicide incident was discovered when the school van of Deepak Jha's daughter kept honking for her this morning but got no response. A girl student, then, climbed out of the van and knocked at the door of the Jha home and saw the bodies. 

This is second case of mass death in a family in Jharkhand in the last 10 days.

Earlier, six members of a debt-ridden family died in Hazaribagh. Police are yet to find if it was a case of mass suicide or murder.

To recall, 11 members of a wealthy family, including two teen schoolboys, were found hanging in their home in Burari in north Delhi on July 1. From a number of diaries found in the house, investigators have gathered information about the wired mass suicide that was driven by the blind faith of one man in the family that the "ritual" would lead them to salvation. The police say they will carry out a psychological autopsy of the family. The incident has left the entire nation in a state of shock.