Doc, hubby & 2 kids found dead at home

Nagpur: A doctor, her husband, and their two children were found dead at their residence in Jagnade Society, Om Nagar on Tuesday under unexplained circumstances. Several years back, the previous occupant of the house — a barber — too had ended his life.
The bodies of assistant professor Dhiraj Rane (42) and his children Dhruv (11) and Vannya (5) were found in the bedroom. Dhiraj’s wife Dr Sushma was found hanging in the adjacent room.
Police said Dhiraj’s aunt Pramila Shashtrakar, who stayed in the adjacent room, had called out for Sushma and Dhiraj at 10.30am as there was no sound from their room. Sushma replied that they wanted to be excused as they had gone to bed late, last evening. At around 12.45pm, Pramila again tried to beckon Sushma and Dhiraj, but Sushma said they were exhausted and wanted to rest more.
After 1pm, Pramila pushed the door open and entered the room, only to find Dhiraj and the two children lying motionless on the bed. She then went to the other room, where Sushma’s body was hanging from the ceiling fan.
Pramila rushed out to raise an alarm in the neighbourhood and a neighbour alerted the police control room.
Three injection syringes, an empty anaesthesia bottle, a strip of strong tranquillizer pills and a suicide note were found in the room. Several empty beer and liquor bottles too were found in the house. Sources said Dhiraj was being sedated with liquor by Sushma. The police remained tight-lipped regarding the incident.
Sources from Sushma's family said Dhiraj was of a suspicious nature. He would repeatedly call to know her whereabouts and often picked up quarrels on the issue.
It's reliably learnt that Sushma wrote in the suicide note, “Dhiraj, I cannot see you in tension everyday and slipping away in this manner, and hence am taking the decision to end everyone’s life,”
Dhiraj was very often found sitting in his car in the evenings, talking on the phone. A day before the incident, a neighbour had spotted the couple sitting in the car for a long time in front of their house.
Some neighbours recalled that the children had enjoyed Pola festival with decorated bulls last year, and also the colourful Ganpati festival.
Dhiraj, who worked as a computer science faculty, was an MTech. He was brought up by aunt Pramila. Dhruv was a martial art champion from an early age.
It’s learnt that Sushma, who worked at a private hospital as resident medical officer (RMO) and at the intensive care unit, touched upon depression, life’s lost vision and the pressures of pending loans and mounting liabilities during the lockdown in the suicide note. She also mentioned their ATM numbers on the suicide note with a request to pay off the pending loans, it’s learnt. Some “personal issues” were also mentioned in the note.
Sources said Dhiraj’s salary was heavily slashed during the lockdown. He was also not regular at college last month.
Koradi police have registered the case as accidental death after sending the bodies for post-mortem at Mayo hospital.