Parents kill disabled son, commit suicide

Leave separate notes before jumping together on railway track

Some burnt documents, two suicide notes and three bodies. That's all that is left of businessman Samender Arora's family in Sarita Vihar. Depressed over loss in business, Samender and wife Nimmi Arora jumped in front of a train at Harikesh Nagaru00a0 after killing their mentally challenged son. Before leaving the house both left separate suicide notes.


Remainsu00a0of the day: A sandal and a piece of cloth lay on the railway
track. PIC/Imtiyaz Khan

While Samender addressed it to his father Daljit Singh, 80, saying that he has suffered severe losses in business, Nimmi wrote it to Samender telling him that she and her son had become a "burden" on him.
Samender allegedly strangled his son Karandeep Arora before leaving with his wife for the nearby railway track where they were run over by a train. Their bodies were found near the track.

However, the police are probing the case from all angles, as several burnt documents have been seized from the house and the murder of Karandeep is also under police scanner. The Aroras used to live in flat number 96, F Block, DDA Flats, Sarita Vihar.
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"On Sunday evening the deceased told his father that he is going for evening walk with his wife but he didn't return till Monday morning. When his father went to Karandeep's room to wake him up, he found him dead too," said a police officer.

Daljit Singh informed the police and recovered the bodies of Samender and Nimmi from nearby railway tracks.
"We found some letters from their house. Prima facie it seems a case of suicide but we will confirm it only after proper investigation. The death of the child is a matter of investigation too and we are waiting for the postmortem report," said VS Chahal, Addl. Commissioner of Police, South East Delhi.

Samender had an Iron and Aluminum factory in Sonepat, Haryana and he was reportedly going through a financial crisis. Samender's car was found near the railway track and the police have detained his driver for questioning.