Jammu: The SIT (Special Investigation Team) of Jammu and Kashmir police said that six persons who were found dead inside two houses in Jammu’s Sidhra area 10 days ago, had died due to self-inflicted drug overdose, which they decided to take for suicide as they were suffering depression and had multiple court cases. Moreover, those six deceased persons started the suicide planning from 5 August till its execution on 15 August.
Addressing a press Conference, Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu, Chandan Kohli said, Noor-ul-Habib is believed to have convinced the five members of the family included an elderly woman, her specially-abled daughter and son, another daughter and grandson to commit suicide as both the families were under depression due to pending court cases and medical reasons.
He also said that the police have arrested two persons in the case; a health worker who provided the drugs and a plumber who buried two bodies before others died and accused them for deliberately concealing the occurrence of the crime by not informing police on time, which could have saved their lives.
He said Habib convinced Sakeena, her daughter Rubeena and grandson Sajad Ali to end their lives.
Referring to the investigation during which police obtained CCTV footage, call recordings and bank account details, he said Sakina’s specially-abled children were the first to die of a drug overdose on August 12, followed by Sakeena on August 14 and the others on August 15.
“They started working on their plan on August 5 by bringing cannulas (drug) drips and medicines from chemist shops and deactivating the CCTV the next day,” as per police.
“The services of health worker Sanjeev Kumar, who was known to Habib, was providing and injecting cannulas drug to all of them, while plumber Vijay Kumar was paid Rs 2.5 lakh by Habib to dig a pit in Sakeena’s house.”
He said Habib, along with Rubeena and Ali, visited the city to buy medicines. They ordered food on August 14 and called the health worker in the evening.
“According to our investigation, Habib, a Srinagar resident was settled in Jammu since 1997. He used to financially help his next-door neighbour Sakeena, who worked as a domestic help at his home who was originally hailing from Doda district, Sakeena was facing several court cases and two of her children were specially-abled,” Kohli said.
Police recovered the bodies of the four from Habib’s house on August 17, while the bodies of Sakeena’s differently-abled children Zaffar Salim and Naseema were found in their house after Habib’s sister Shahzada, a resident of Srinagar, informed police that her brother was not answering the phone.
“The bodies were taken to the GMC hospital where the autopsy was performed by a board of doctors in the presence of a magistrate and the process was videographed. The viscera samples were sent for a chemical examination in the Forensic Sciences Laboratory,” Kohli said, adding that the final autopsy and FSL reports are still awaited.
Reportedly, Four bodies — Noor-ul-Habib son of Habib Ullah; Sakina Begum, widow of Ghulam Hassan; Sajad Ahmed son of Farooq Ahmed Magray and Nassema Akhter daughter of Ghulam Hassan — were found in one house. “In the adjacent connected house, two more bodies — identified as Rubina Bano and her brother Zafar Salim — were found with drips in Jammu’s Sidhra.
(KNO)
