Mother and Son Found Dead at Flat in South Kolkata

Kolkata: A mother and a son were found lying dead in the floor of their apartment, located at South Kolkata’s Survey Park on Monday afternoon. The 35-year-old woman and the seven-year-old boy’s dead bodies, Arpita Ghosh and Arko Ghosh respectively, were discovered as police broke open the door of the flat where the wall was used to write suicide note.“My husband is responsible for my death,” the wall showed, with speculations that the twin-death was a result of domestic violence.

Reports are that police have arrested Arpita's husband Tushar Ghosh, who is an engineer at a Sector V firm. Arpita’s family has lodged a complaint against Tushar. Police has started to investigate the case under IPC Section 306 (abetment to suicide). Arpita’s profession is unknown while Arko was a class II student of a reputed school in south Kolkata. However, police has asserted that Tushar is cooperating with them.

Police also noted that they were first informed by the neighbors who saw smoke coming out from Ghosh’s flat accompanied with burning flesh. Later, police found lot of kerosene on the floor and suspected that the oil has been used and caused the twin death. The door was locked from inside which had increased the speculations of third person involvement in the case.

“The bodies have been sent for post-mortem. We are not sure at this stage whether the boy was killed first and then set on fire. This will become clear once the post-mortem report comes on Tuesday,” the investigative officer in-charge has asserted.