Raipur, July 5
Three sisters of a poverty-hit family allegedly consumed pesticides and committed suicide Sunday in a Chhattisgarh village. Police said the suicides were linked to a domestic dispute.
The deaths took place in Daruan Kapa in Bilaspur district, about 160 km from the capital Raipur.
The three sisters - Monika, 22, Mausmi, 20, and Tulsi, 18 - consumed pesticides at their house in the morning and were rushed to a private hospital. They died in the afternoon, Station House Officer A.K. Dwivedi told IANS by phone.
He said police interrogated close family members and the quizzing revealed that the sisters had taken the extreme step after a family dispute.