Mumbai woman feeds sleeping pills to kids, kills herself

A Mumbai woman first gave an overdose of sleeping pills to her mentally challenged kids and then consumed the same pills and killed herself

In a tragic incident, a 47-year-old Mumbai woman fed an overdose of sleeping pills to her mentally challenged children — a 21-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old son — and then consumed the same pills and killed herself.

The woman and her kids lived with her father at Mira Road, Mumbai. The sleeping pills were prescribed drugs, said police. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

The woman divorced her husband a year ago and came to stay with her father at the Juhi Narendra CHS building at Mumbai's Mira Road. Her two children, on the night of the incident, fought over a soft drink bottle which irritated and depressed her, said the woman's father.

The family went to sleep after settling the matter. On Tuesday morning, when the father went to wake up his daughter to fill water, he was shocked to see the three bodies.

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Senior inspector Jitendra Vankoti of Naya Nagar police station said, “The bodies have been sent to the Sir JJ Hospital for post-mortem and we have registered a case of accidental death. We have also seized used strip of sleeping pills and sent the contents for forensic analysis. We presume that the two children may be undergoing medical treatment as the sleeping pills are prescribed drugs and cannot be purchased over the counter at medical shops.”

“The woman’s father is traumatised and we will question him after he is in a condition to speak. We have informed her ex-husband and we are investigating further. The father would take the financial responsibility for his daughter and his two grandchildren,” said the Mumbai police officer.

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