Sabeer bhatia family death

2018 mass suicide in Delhi, India

The Burari deaths were a ritualmass suicide^[1] of eleven family members of the Chundawat family^[2] from Burari, Delhi, India, in 2018. Ten people—ranging in age from 15 to 57 years old—were found hanged, while the oldest family member, the 80-year-old grandmother, was strangled.

The bodies were found on 1 July 2018, in the early morning after the deaths. The police have ruled the deaths were motivated by shared psychosis.^[3][4]

Background

The Chundawat family, also known as the Bhatia family,^[2] had lived in the three-story house^[5] in Burari's Sant Nagar neighbourhood for around twenty years, after moving from their native town in Tohana, Haryana.

The family ran a grocery shop and a plywood business in the area. The family consisted of:^[6]

• Narayani Devi (80), mother of Bhuvnesh, Lalit and Pratibha
• Pratibha Bhatia (57), widowed daughter of Narayani Devi