Take A Bowl, Beg”: Harassed By Children For Property, Couple Dies By Suicide

A 70-year-old man and his wife allegedly died by suicide by jumping into the water tank of their home in Rajasthan and left a note pasted on a wall listing the alleged atrocities committed against them by their own children, who wanted to grab their property, police said. 

The note said that not only did the couple’s sons and their daughters-in-law beat them up on at least five occasions, but they also threatened to kill them and stopped giving them food, asking their mother to “take a bowl and beg”.

Hazariram Bishnoi, 70, and his 68-year-old wife Chawali Devi lived in Rajasthan’s Nagaur and their bodies were recovered from a water tank inside their home in Karni Colony on Thursday. The couple had four children – two sons and two daughters – and, in their two-page suicide note stuck on a wall of their home, they wrote that one of their sons, Rajendra, thrashed them thrice while the other, Sunil, did so twice.