Greater Noida. Police have arrested three people in connection with the death of five members of the same family in Rabupura area of Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Officials said that the police have arrested the elder sister, brother-in-law and younger sister of deceased Mahesh in this case.
The bodies of five members of a family were found inside their house in Greater Noida, whose death is suspected to be suicide amid a long-running property dispute, police said on Sunday. According to the police, so far a family dispute regarding the house has come to light.
It is alleged that the two sisters and brother-in-law tried to get the property transferred to their name by provoking their mother and harassed Mahesh and his wife. The police registered a case on charges of abetment of suicide and interrogated the accused. After this, they were formally arrested. On the complaint of deceased Mahesh’s brother-in-law, a case was registered against all three in Rabupura police station. She alleged that the family was subjected to harassment.
The case took a new turn on Sunday when the police team examined a voice note allegedly recorded by Mahesh on his mobile phone before his death. According to the police, an audio recording has been found from Mahesh’s mobile, in which he has held his elder sister Sunita, brother-in-law Shekhar and younger sister Sapna responsible for the incident.
This case came to light from Nagla Padam village of Rabupura area of Greater Noida. Mahesh, his wife Lalita and their three children were found dead inside their house on Saturday. Post-mortem examination found signs of poisoning, due to which doctors preserved samples of internal organs of all five deceased for further investigation. The family had reportedly consumed tea and noodles the previous night. Officials said the exact cause of death would be known only after receiving the results of laboratory tests.