KOLKATA: Kolkata Police detectives on Wednesday visited the home, the place three feminine members of a household have been killed final month, and reconstructed the crime scene with an accused – the husband of one of many deceased. The sleuths through the investigation additionally discovered that the Dey brothers, who have been within the tannery enterprise, had a mortgage of over Rs 15 crore, which they have been unable to repay, main them to resolve to hold out the killings, a senior police officer stated.

Two Dey brothers – Pranay and Prasun – lived in that home within the Tangra space with their wives, Sudeshna and Romi, respectively. Pranay’s son and Prasun’s daughter have been the opposite occupants of the home. Romi, Sudeshna and the daughter have been discovered lifeless inside their Tangra residence, whereas three others have been injured after their automobile crashed right into a Metro Rail pillar within the metropolis on early February 19. The police got here to know concerning the deaths in the home from one of many three injured occupants of the automobile.

On Wednesday, Kolkata Police sleuths took Prasun, who was arrested on Monday, to their residence to reconstruct the crime scene. The youthful brother was accompanied by officers of the Detective Division (DD) scientific wings from its headquarters and investigating officers from the Tangra Police Station.

“The reconstruction has been videographed. The accused individual was requested to enact each element of the crime, the place the our bodies have been mendacity after the murders have been carried out. What precisely he and his brother Pranay Dey and nephew did after the crime was executed at their Tangra residence,” the police officer stated. Pranay and his son are nonetheless within the hospital due to the harm they suffered within the automobile crash.

“Throughout at the moment’s reconstruction of the crime scene, all claims of Prasun have been doubly checked,” the officer stated, including that relying on their findings they could once more query the arrested accused. The detectives have been additionally planning to interrogate the 2 Dey brothers collectively to crack the thriller behind the triple homicide case. “As soon as Pranay is discharged from the hospital, he might be arrested. After that, we’ll query each the brothers collectively to confirm their claims,” the officer stated.

The brothers had, earlier, claimed to the police that there was a suicide pact among the many members of the family, following which all consumed porridge laced with sleeping capsules, the officer stated. Investigations revealed that the 2 brothers — Pranay and Prasun — together with their wives, determined to eat porridge spiked with an enormous variety of sleeping capsules and die by suicide on February 17, he stated.

“This was their first plan which didn’t work out. After that, they deliberate that the ladies would bounce off from the terrace however when the 2 wives denied to take action, they determined to slit their wrists,” the officer stated. Prasun claimed that he was helped by his spouse in smothering their sleeping daughter utilizing a pillow. Romi had held their daughter’s legs as she was kicking. After she died, Romi tried to slit her personal wrists utilizing a paper-knife however failed. Prasun then killed his spouse by slashing her wrists.

The officer stated Prasun additionally confessed to killing his sister-in-law, Sudeshna, he stated including that each one these occurred on February 18. For some causes, the boy within the household was not murdered in the identical approach, the officer stated. The boy, his father and uncle went out of their automobile which crashed right into a pillar of Metro Rail on early February 19.