Mumbai: Family leaves suicide note and Rs 50,000 for cops!

If finding a family of four dead in mysterious circumstances is not enough motivation for the police to investigate what would they say if the family left behind money for the investigation before committing suicideSiblings Bharti Pal and Somnath Kartik Pal were found hanging at their employerrsquos flat in Oshiwara on Friday night and their mother and stepfather were found similarly dead the next morning All four had placed shrouds on the ground beneath their bodiesThe Oshiwara police are baffled with just such a case after they found four family members hanging in Andheri West and later discovered that not only were the suicides preplanned but the deceased had even left Rs 50000 for the copsmidday had reported yesterday that on Friday night a brothersister duo Bharti Pal 25 and Somnath Kartik Pal 20 were found hanging in an Oshiwara flat where they worked as livein housekeepersThe very next morning their mother Sikha Pal 45 and stepfather Manoj Ajitkumar Patel 50 were also found hanging in their flat in Lokhandwala lsquoFamily commits suicidersquo Sunday midday February 23It was also reported that the siblingsrsquo employer one Tinku Singh would allegedly sexually abuse Bharti and beat up her brother Somnath The girlrsquos suicide note was written in English and signed by her but was found in her motherrsquos houseIn the note she accused the employer of repeatedly sexually assaulting her and said this had driven her to commit suicide ldquoWe are trying to confirm the authenticity of the note and how it reached her mothers residenceIn the note the daughter accused her employer of prolonged sexual harassmentrdquo said PI Mahadeo Wavale from Oshiwara police station In addition the police also found a mobile phone lying close to the bodies of the siblingsrsquo mother and stepfatherThe mobile phone had a note stuck on top that said lsquowatch the videosrsquo On going through the phonersquos contents the cops found three videos the suicide notes of the brother mother and stepfather of Bharti The mother said in her video ldquoMy children were my life Now that they are taking their lives I donrsquot want to live anymorerdquoBhartirsquos brother alleged that their employer had been sexually harassing his sister and would also beat him up frequently while the stepfather said no one was to be held responsible for his death as he was depressed due to severe diabetes and hypertensionCops later also found Bhartirsquos own cell phone from the employerrsquos house but are yet to view its contents as it is passwordprotected Their most bizarre discovery of all however was one other note found in a container in the kitchen The container held R50000 in cash which the note said was for the copsThe police are quite confused with this discovery and donrsquot know what to make of it yet All four bodies are at the mortuary at R N Cooper Hospital and the stepfatherrsquos brother is expected to take possession of his body after arriving from the US In the meanwhile the police are tracing the next of kin of the other three deceasedlsquoLike my sisterrsquoAfter the police found a suicide note and three videos that supported this claim they arrested the 35yearold employer Singh for abetment of suicide and molestation under the Indian Penal Code The brothersister duo had been working for him for over 10 years before which their mother worked for himIn his statement to the police Singh said Bharti was like his sister and he did not harm her Bhartirsquos post mortem did not reveal any traces of semen confirming she had not been raped prior to the suicide