Overview
- Police said the couple were found hanging from a neem tree in their Dhardei village courtyard on February 16, and the bodies were sent for postmortem with a case registered.
- Officers seized a suicide note and a video message addressed to their lawyer as part of the ongoing investigation.
- The communications attribute the act to unbearable grief after the 2024 road death of their only son, 21-year-old Aditya Patel, in the Masturi police station area.
- In the video, the couple asked that compensation linked to their son's accident be given to the husband's elder brothers, Kulbhara Patel and Jalbhara Patel.
- The note stated that no one should be blamed and used religious phrasing, while neighbours discovered the bodies after noticing unusual silence and villagers described the couple's social withdrawal.