Overview
- A bailiff and police executing a court-ordered possession used a duplicate key around 2:45 pm on December 12 to enter the locked flat and found Anuradha Kapoor, 52, and her sons, Ashish, 32, and Chaitanya, 27, hanging.
- Post-mortems were conducted at the AIIMS mortuary and the bodies were later handed over to relatives for last rites, according to officials.
- Police recovered a one-and-a-half-page handwritten note indicating prolonged emotional distress and financial strain, and are treating the case as suspected suicide.
- Relatives and investigators cited heavy informal debt and extended rent defaults, with reports of borrowing from 40–50 people and eviction proceedings following non-payment.
- Neighbours and police reported a prior suicide attempt by the brothers weeks earlier, while investigators examine documents, digital devices and interview family to establish the sequence and motive.