‘Burari deaths: Our family was educated, not superstitious’

UDAIPUR: Dinesh Singh Chundawat, eldest son of the family whose 11 members found dead inside a house in Delhi’s Burari on last Sunday, claimed that deaths were a result of a big conspiracy and not superstition or occult practice as mentioned by Delhi police.
Dinesh, who arrived at Sawa village from Delhi with the mortal remains of his family members, said that religious rituals would be completed at his ancestral home here. A civil contractor by profession, Dinesh said that most of their family members were highly qualified and educated.

“Priyanka, my niece who got engaged in June, was an MBA and was happy and excited like any other girl for her wedding plans. I was in Delhi on June 16 and next day was her engagement. The entire family was happy and there were no talks related to 'union with God' as what is being speculated now," Dinesh said.

He also said that his family was quite religious and did Sunderkaand paath and Hanuman Chalisa regularly, and if this is superstition, then most of the families should be labelled superstitious. “The family had planned a budget of Rs 25 lakh for house renovation as well as the engagement function. Some Rs 12 lakh had been spent already while the renovation work is under progress. The ventilation pipes were put up on my suggestion because there was a vacant plot adjoining our house and so to get some air and light, I had suggested them to do that,” Dinesh said.

On being asked about the register which had reportedly the suicide methods jotted down by Lalit Singh, his younger brother, Dinesh said that this is the only basis on which police is claiming the case to be suicide, but if they really had something like this in mind, he would have known it when he visited them in June.

“Somebody who commits suicide or plans to kill, does the act behind closed doors, but the door was found open. There is some big conspiracy behind it but the police are not relying on our words and rather believing on what others are saying. I don’t believe that my family would commit suicide for as incredible a reason like ‘uniting with God’. If it is so, police should give us strong evidences on superstition, otherwise, they should hold a fair probe to solve the case," he said.