More details have come to the fore in the double murder and double suicide that rocked the city last week. As per Kandivli police, which is probing why the teenage girl and their 60-year-old driver murdered her mother and stepsister and then took their own lives, the accused in the four-page suicide note mentioned that they committed the crime as her mother had an affair with another man for over two years and that the man had threatened the teen, her father and younger brother. The driver also alleged that the mother had allegedly sold the teen girl to the man for Rs 2 lakh.

The driver, Shivdayal Sen, 60, also mentioned in the note that he had married Bhumi Dalvi, 17, before taking their own lives so that she could rest in peace, as he believed that souls of unmarried women who die by suicide kept wandering the earth. He further requested that both their bodies be burnt in one pyre.