THE THREE-STOREY home of the Dey household on Atul Sur Highway has been drawing a number of onlookers, curious to get a glimpse inside. A prominently displayed nameplate that claims ‘PK Dey’, accompanied by two smaller nameplates — saying ‘Ma-Babar Ashirwad’ (dad or mum’s blessing) and ‘Chita Nibas’ (consciousness/spirit house) — could be seen on the home.
The home in Kolkata’s Tangra neighbourhood, a glove-making manufacturing unit, properties, automobiles and round the clock watchmen had been all symbols of their prosperity. Native residents noticed them as a household blessed with luck.
PK Dey, the daddy, who had arrange the enterprise, was referred to as ‘chotu da’ within the locality and had offered employment to many within the space when the household enterprise was at its peak. The household was among the many highest contributors in the direction of the Durga Puja/Kali puja celebrations of the locality.
The latest deaths of the three girls members of the Dey household, whose our bodies had been recovered from a home within the Tangra neighbourhood of east Kolkata on Wednesday, despatched shockwaves throughout town.
On February 19, a automotive with three males – Pranay Dey, his youthful brother Prasun Dey, and Pranay’s minor son – crashed right into a pillar close to Abhishikta Extra on Kolkata’s EM Bypass.
Throughout questioning later, Pranay allegedly made a startling admission: that they’d deliberately crashed the automotive in a “suicide try” and that his members of the family – his spouse and teenage
daughter and his sister-in-law – had already died by suicide.
A police staff that was dispatched to their home discovered the our bodies of two girls – Pranay’s spouse Sudeshna Dey and Prasun’s spouse Romi Dey – and Prasun’s minor daughter, all in separate rooms in a flat on the primary ground.
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The Dey household, recognized for his or her upscale way of life and obvious huge wealth, was in actuality drowning in debt, stated police, including that their home and the automotive had, in actual fact, been mortgaged.
The Dey household’s once-thriving enterprise, which employed 200-300 staff, had dwindled to a mere 30-40 staff. The manufacturing unit positioned close by has been shut because the incident. These days, they may not even pay the lease of the manufacturing unit, sources stated.
The police investigation revealed that the Dey household had amassed crores of rupees in debt, taking loans from seven banks and personal lending companies. “They managed loans from a number of sources by displaying the next turnover than the precise numbers,” stated a police officer. “A drastic discount in workers painted a transparent image of their sliding fortune, finally resulting in their lack of ability to even pay the lease for his or her manufacturing unit,” stated a police officer.
Kailash Das, the household’s driver, stated that he was unexpectedly informed to not report for obligation on Tuesday and that he can be notified when his providers had been wanted once more. Das stated that he was paid his wage on the fifth of each month, and primarily based on this, he by no means suspected that the household was going through monetary difficulties.
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“The Dey household assembly such a tragedy… That too due to monetary issues is hard to imagine,” stated Dr C Ok Chang, who has been operating a dental clinic within the adjoining constructing stated.
“I by no means noticed them preventing. The women of the home would principally keep indoors. The 2 brothers would by no means make any commotion,” Chang stated.
Hospital sources reveal that Pranay Dey’s minor son sustained extreme accidents within the automotive accident,. {The teenager} stays unconscious and should endure one other surgical procedure, in response to hospital officers. In line with sources, there are inconsistencies within the statements of the 2 brothers.
Police imagine the deaths occurred on February 18.
Preliminary police investigations had revealed that the household had first unsuccessfully tried to kill themselves on February 17 by lacing their dessert with poison. “Nevertheless, this try failed, as everybody was discovered acutely aware the next day. They then modified their plan,” a supply informed The Indian Categorical.
