It happened in front of me, says ex-Army doctor whose family committed suicide

He said that Sameer and Anjana wrote a note and kept it on the dining table. Before midnight, Sameer injected his daughter Samita (with poison) and Momita did the same to her daughter Sumita. Anjana injected Sameer, Momita and herself, said Dr Sarkar.

“The entire incident happened before my eyes and I just sat there disappointed, disheartened,” Dr Sarkar told police. Anjana, Momita, Samita, Sumita and Sameer went to sleep, he said. Between 2-3 am, Dr Sarkar said, he “picked up a knife, stabbed himself in both his legs, slashed both his wrists and hit himself repeatedly in his chest and neck”. “I don’t know how I survived,” he told the magistrate.

According to the statement, the family arrived in Ranchi from Noida on October 6.

There, they visited a psychiatrist and met a lawyer to discuss the allegations made by their daughter-in-law. On the lawyer’s advice, they filed a complaint at a local police station on October 7.