Overview
- The deaths unfolded early Tuesday when police allege 65-year-old cloth merchant Prabhakar strangled his wife, Jyothi, and son, Santosh, at their rented Mandya home before being found hanging at his shop.
- A daughter-in-law, Meghana, discovered the bodies after she found the room latched on the morning she went to wake her mother-in-law and told police the family had dined together the previous night.
- Investigators recovered a suicide note in which the accused wrote he faced pressure to repay a home loan and EMIs and blamed falling business linked to the state 'Shakti' free-bus scheme and private financiers.
- Scene-of-crime officers and a Forensic Science Laboratory team inspected the house and shop and police say strangulation marks were seen on the two victims, but the post-mortem and full forensic analysis are pending.
- Authorities have opened a detailed probe to confirm the exact sequence and causes of death and to verify claims in the note, with investigators likely to follow bank and lender records and forensic findings next.