In a shocking incident, a 41-year-old doctor allegedly killed her husband and two children and then ended her life by hanging herself in Maharashtra's Nagpur city, police said on Tuesday.
The woman, identified as Dr Shushma Rane, her husband Dhiraj (42), a professor at an engineering college, and their children aged 11 and five were found dead at their home in Om Nagar in Koradi area.
The police have recovered two syringes and a suicide note from the scene. The note said, she had taken the extreme step as she was unhappy, he said.
The deaths came to light when the deceased's 60-year-old aunt, who lived with them, knocked on the bedroom door and did not receive any response, the official said.
As per the preliminary investigation it suggests that Sushma might have mixed sedatives in the food to her husband and children which made them unconscious and later injected them with unidentified medicine, the official said.A case has been registered and an investigation is underway, the official said.