RAW official and his family found dead

New Delhi: A senior RAW official, his wife and two children were found dead under mysterious circumstances in their official residence in South Delhi's Sadiq Nagar area on Saturday, police said.

According to the police Ananya Chakraborty, (52) who was a technical officer in Reasearch and Analysis Wing, was found hanging from the fan on Saturday evening. While the bodies of his wife Jayashri, son Arnab, (17) and daughter Disha, (12) were found dead on the floor lying in a pool of blood.

Chakraborty was posted as a field officer in the cabinet secretariat and was working in one of the classified branches, a source in the intelligence establishment said.

Since both doors that give access to the flat were locked from inside, the police believe Chakraborty killed his wife and children before hanging himself. However, since they have not recovered any note and there are no eyewitnesses or survivors either, the man's motive remains unknown. The state of the bodies and the coagulated blood at the spot indicate that the incident took place between midnight and dawn.

Marital discord is one of the factors the police are investigating. Some neighbors said they had heard the couple fighting. The families of both Chakraborty and his wife are being questioned, police said. "We have registered a case of murder and have got the scene of crime examined by forensic experts. More details will emerge once the postmortem is conducted," said DCP south B S Jaiswal.

Ananya lived with his family in Flat No. 47 of the Type IV government quarters in the area. His wife was a school teacher in a prominent public school and the children studied in Central School. He was in Delhi for over five years and was due for promotion and foreign posting, the source in the intelligence wing said.

When the police broke open the door, they found the bodies. Crime and forensic experts were called. The bodies were sent to AIIMS for postmortem late in the evening. A special team, led by additional DCP P S Kushwah and inspector Kuldeep Singh has been formed to investigate the case.

"We are investigating the case and the exact cause is yet to be ascertained", said an investigating officer.