Domestic help in shock after witnessing four suicides

NEW DELHI: Witnessing four members of her employer’s family hanging themselves within two months has shocked Rachna.

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The teenager claimed that forgetting the scenes of her employers hanging from ceiling fans will be difficult for her.

Rachna, the domestic help at BK Bansal’s residence in Neelkanth Apartments, did not want to work again after she spotted Bansal’s wife Satyabala and daughter Neha hanging in two separate rooms on July 19.

That day she had cried and subsequently stopped visiting the society, with a fear that she might never be able to get the gruesome images out of her head, said Rachana’s family members.

The girl, however, went back to working for the family a month ago after her employer BK Bansal’s repeated requests. On Tuesday, however, she again witnessed BK Bansal and his son Yogesh hanging from the fans in the same rooms in which Satyabala and Neha had hanged themselves.

Rachna did alert the neighbours about the incident immediately, but told HT that said she had lost the strength to recollect the incident for one more time.

Living in the narrow alleys of Ala Colony in East Delhi, Rachna’s uncle said: “She was scared when I saw her inside the police station. The society’s security guards told me that she had fainted after alerting them about the suicides.”

On Monday she had left the society at 6pm as she was told to come late on Tuesday by the father-son duo. They had told her that the doors wouldn’t be locked and she can enter the house for work.

Accordingly, she entered the house on Tuesday and found the father-son duo hanging from the ceiling fans in their rooms.