Four members of a family were found dead inside a chawl in Shivaji Nagar area of Govandi on Friday. The police said that the man, Shakeel Khan, 34, poisoned his wife Raziya and two children—Sarfaraz, 5, and daughter Atisha, 3—before hanging himself. Police sources said Khan had mixed the poison in a water bottle. As no suicide note was found, cops are not sure about what led Khan to take the extreme step. 

Khan, who lived in a rented toom in a chawl with his family, ran a kirana store nearby. Shaikh Kesari Bano, owner of the chawl, said, “I had tried to wake up the family in the morning to ask them to stock water as there is no water connection here. When I did not get any response from them, I thought they were still sleeping.”