A family of four, including two minor children, allegedly died of suicide in their Hyderabad apartment on Friday night, police said on Saturday, adding that the family was reportedly distraught over their kids’ ill-health and may have formed a suicide pact.

According to the police, 39-year-old Satish—a software engineer by profession—his wife Vedha and the couple’s two minor children, Nishiketh (9) and Nihal (5), were found dead in their apartment in the Kushaiguda area of Hyderabad city.

They said the incident is suspected to have taken place on Friday night but the police received information on Saturday afternoon and a team was rushed to the scene which took custody of the bodies.

Giving details, an official said the family of four committed suicide by ingesting an unknown poison and preliminary investigations have revealed that the both their children suffered from some sort of mental illness.

The official said the now-deceased kids were under treatment but weren’t showing any signs of relief from their illness and as such the family had become distraught and resorted to taking the extreme step, adding that the family are suspected to have committed suicide on Friday night but the police received information about the incident at around 2 pm on Saturday.

He said that Satish’s brother-in-law Manikanta asked the building’s security guard to check on the family after he failed to reach the couple despite repeated attempts since Saturday morning.

The guard found the family car still parked in the parking area and after receiving no response on ringing the door bell, he managed to peek through a window and found them inside, however the family wasn’t moving and the guard and some neighbours climbed onto another balcony and managed to enter the family’s flat from the back door.

The neighbors and the security found the family lying dead in their apartment, Satish was found leaning against a wall in a sitting posture while Veda and the two children were lying dead in the bed.

The official said that the bodies of the victims have been shifted to the mortuary, adding that an investigation is underway to shed more light onto the incident and a case under section 174 of the CrPC has been registered in this regard.

Fresh summons has been issued to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s (KCR) daughter and BRS leader K Kavitha, today by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after she skipped a date with the central probe agency earlier in the day in connection with its ongoing probe into the purported Delhi excise policy scam case.

According to officials, K Kavitha has been summoned for questioning in a money laundering case related to the Delhi policy scam case on March 20.

The BRS leader’s legal team submitted a representation to the probe agency in which she said matters regarding her summoning for questioning by the ED is now before the Supreme Court and “the outcome thereof must be awaited before any further proceedings take place with respect to the subject summons”.

Earlier today, K Kavitha skipped on a summon by the ED and instead sent her “authorized representative” (an office bearer of her party), along with a letter wherein the BRS MLC said the she sending her as the summons do not explicitly require her being there in person. Kavitha also cited a pending plea before the Supreme Court in which has sought protection from arrest and quashing of summons against her in the case.

Kavitha wrote in her letter to ED: “I humbly beseech your good self that the proceedings before the Supreme Court being sacred and sacrosanct, the outcome thereof must be awaited before any further proceedings take place with respect to the subject summons.”

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K Kavitha’s “authorized representative” handed a six-page representation against her deposition along with her bank statement, personal and business details to the ED investigation officer, according to reports.

Kavitha, who was questioned by the central agency for nine hours on March 11 and was asked to depose again on March 16. During the interrogation session, she was reportedly made to confront statements made by Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandran Pillai, an arrested accused in the case who allegedly who allegedly shares close ties with her, apart from those of few others involved in the case.

The BRS leader recently led a hunger strike in Delhi on March 10 seeking the passage of the long-pending Women’s Reservation Bill in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament.

However, both Congress and the BJP have alleged that Kavitha’s hunger strike was a mere ploy to divert attention from her appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the purported Delhi liquor policy scam case.

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According to reports, the round table conference which has been organized by a Bharat Jagruthi—a cultural organisation headed by Kavitha—would be held a hotel in Delhi on March 15 from 3 pm to 5 pm in the evening.

Kavitha recently led a hunger strike in Delhi on March 10 seeking the passage of the long-pending Women’s Reservation Bill in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. However, both Congress and the BJP have alleged that Kavitha’s hunger strike was a mere ploy to divert attention from her appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the purported Delhi liquor policy scam case.

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The ED, a central agency which probes financial crimes, grilled KCR’s daughter for nine hours on March 11, to record her statement in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam case.

Kavitha has been summoned again on March 16 by the ED.

The ED case alleges that K Kavitha is part of the South Cartel that benefited from kickbacks after Delhi’s now-scrapped liquor policy came into force. The South Group comprises Kavitha, Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Group), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (MP, Ongole), his son Raghav Magunta, and others.

The South Group was being represented by Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, Abhishek Boinpalli and Butchi Babu, the federal agency investigation has revealed.

The probe agency has claimed its investigations have revealed that Pillai—who was arrested earlier this month— along with his associates was coordinating with various persons to execute a political understanding between the South Group and a leader of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

Pillai has been accessory and was involved in the kickbacks from the South Group and the recoupment of the same from the businesses in Delhi, ED claimed.

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