Bedridden for a year, elderly couple hang selves at south Delhi home

The couple, aged 74 and 69, retired as teachers from Delhi University several years ago.

An elderly couple, who was bedridden for the past year after suffering multiple fractures in a road accident, allegedly killed themselves at their home in south Delhi’s Kalkaji Extension on Wednesday, police said.

Police said they found two suicide notes in which the couple said they were ending their lives because they were bedridden. (Picture for representation only)

The couple, aged 74 and 69, retired as teachers from Delhi University several years ago.

Police said they found two suicide notes in which the couple said they were ending their lives because they were bedridden.

Deputy commissioner of police (southeast) Esha Pandey said that on Wednesday around 3.45pm, a woman informed the police that her parents had taken their lives at home.

A police team reached the house and met the caller, who told them that her parents were bedridden and lived by themselves. The caller lived with her family in a different area in south Delhi. She had hired a caretaker for them

The police said that around 2.30pm, the caretaker went to the couple’s house and rang the doorbell several times but nobody responded. The caretaker panicked and informed the couple’s daughter. She immediately arrived and broke the lock with the caretaker’s help. They entered the house and found the couple dead, the police said.

“A team inspected the place and found two suicide notes on a table. The bodies were handed over to the family after an autopsy. No foul play was suspected,” said the DCP.