A woman sets herself on fire along with her three children in Jharkhand’s Giridih. The bodies of mother and her three daughters were found in a well at Manjhne under Gawan police station of the district on Wednesday morning.
The deceased have been identified as Ruby Devi (30 years), daughters Amrita Kumari (six years), Ritika Kumari (three years) and Gunjan Kumari (two years).
The well in which the bodies were found were near the parental house of the deceased woman, Ruby.
Ruby was married to Deepu Chaudhary and he informed Devi’s parents on Tuesday evening that she had gone somewhere with her daughters.
On Wednesday, local residents found the bodies floating in the well and raised an alarm following which police arrived on the spot and fished them out.
According to the report of Telegraph, Giridih SP Surender Kumar Jha said that there is possibility of suicide in this case, however, it will be clear only after the investigation.
The villagers said that water in the well was not deep enough for anybody to drown. The well is only 7-feet-deep while the water level is only 4 feet. It doesn’t seem that the four of them died of drowning, villagers said, adding that blood was coming out from the mouths of all the deceased.
“The police are investigating the matter to ascertain whether the woman and her daughters were killed or committed suicide. They are awaiting a post-mortem report, which will clear the picture,” a police officer said.
It is also reportedly said that the woman’s family members allege that since Devi gave birth to the third girl, her in-laws were torturing her. They had even allegedly beaten Devi 10 days ago. When the woman’s parents protested, Chaudhary asked them not to intervene in his family matter.
