Following the deaths of a DU lecturer and his mother, a group of men, who claim to be the former’s friends, told the police that they had tried to stop them from taking the extreme step.
The body of the lecturer was found on the railway track at Sarai Rohilla, while his mother was found hanging from a ceiling fan at their flat in Pitampura, the police said on Sunday.
The bodies have been handed over to the woman’s elder son, a senior officer with India Airforce. The preliminary medical examination has suggested that the 55-year-old woman died of ante-mortem hanging. “The detailed report is awaited,” said an officer. The police said they are verifying the content of the four-paged note from the Kerala Police.
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“On October 15, the professor tried to force his mother to kill herself but did not. After this, last week, some of the professor’s friends had also visited him and stayed there for three days and persuaded the mother-son not to take the extreme step. The friends left the house on Saturday after they were assured that the duo would not take their own lives,” said an officer.
Their friends and family also mentioned that they were upset following a news article published last week in a local Kerala newspaper related to her husband’s death. “We initially registered a murder case after finding woman’s body with clothes stuffed in her mouth. Two knives were also recovered from the second-floor flat where the woman’s body was found hanging,” said an officer.
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