Five members of a family from Kalaburagi found dead in Hyderabad, suicide suspected
Hyderabad (PTI): Five members of a family from Kalaburagi district of neighbouring Karnataka were found dead at their residence here on Thursday and are suspected to have died in a suicide pact, police said.
The deceased are: 60-year-old man, his 55-year-old wife, son-in-law, daughter and two-year-old granddaughter, they said.
Neighbours alerted the police about the incident on Thursday morning, and a team from Miyapur police station reached the spot.
They are suspected to have taken some poisonous substance and died by suicide, a senior police official told PTI.
Based on preliminary investigation, the official said it seems the man had taken loans and was facing financial problems.
The family had shifted to Hyderabad in 2019 and was residing in the Maqtha area for the last two years in a rented house.
Further details are being verified. The bodies were shifted to a hospital.
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Meghalaya: Interstate ATM theft racket busted, 6 arrested
Shillong (PTI): An interstate racket involved in ATM thefts across several states has been busted, with the arrest of six persons in connection with a break-in at an electronic banking outlet in Meghalaya's Ri-Bhoi district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused were allegedly involved in breaking into an ATM of the Meghalaya Cooperative Apex Bank on April 5, 2024, they said.
Three of the accused were arrested from Barpeta in Assam, while the remaining were apprehended from Haryana, police said.
Ri-Bhoi SP Giri Prasad M said a special police team was constituted to investigate the case.
"With coordinated efforts and assistance from Assam and Haryana Police, we were able to apprehend the accused involved in the ATM break-in," he told PTI.
The case was registered at Umiam police station under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
According to police, the gang used gas cutters to break open the ATM safe and fled with the cash within minutes.
"The group is part of a larger network involved in similar ATM thefts across different states. Further investigation is underway to dismantle the entire network," the SP added.
