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The Burari deaths,also Burari case and Burari kand, refers to the
deaths of eleven family members of the Chundawat family from Burari , India in
2018. Ten family members were founded hanged, while the oldest member, the
grandmother was throttled. The dead bodies were found on 1st July 2018, in the early
morning after the death. The police declared that the death as a mass suicide an
angle of shared psychosis being investigated.
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BACKGROUND :
The Chundawat family (also known as Bhatia by neighbours) had been
living in the double-storey house in Burari’s sant nagar for around twenty
years, after moving from their native town in Rajasthan. The family ran a
grocery shop and a plywood business in their area. The family included the matriarch Narayani
Devi-77, her two sons Bhavnesh-50 and Lalit-45, daughters in law Savita-48 and
Teena-42, Narayani’s daughter Pratibha Bhatia-57 and grandchildren Priyanka-33
(daughter of Pratibha), Nitu-25 (elder daughter of Bhavnesh), Monu-23 (younger
daughter of Bhavnesh), Dhruv-15 (younger son of Bhavnesh) and Shivam-15 (only
child of Lalit). Only one person is not dead Dinesh Chundawat- 62 (the eldest son of Chundawat family) because he left home 3
years before.
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In
2007, Lalit Chundawat’s father Bhopal Singh died natural causes. After the
death of his father, Lalit became very introvert and soon he started praying in
front of trees and offering food to animals. One day, he told his family that
he was possessed by his father’s soul, who advised him the ways to attain a
good life. Since 2013 he had been maintaining a diary on his father’s
instructions. The pet dog of the family Tommy died of a heart attack at his
newfound home in Noida on Sunday 22 july 2018.The only survivor in the house was Tommy, was chained on the terrace and
suffering from high fever when the police found him after discovering the 11 dead bodies. It was not clear who had tied him.
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DISCOVERY OF BODIES :
On the morning of 1st july around 7:15, neighbour Gurcharan Singh, who used to go on morning walks with on of the deceased, went to Chundawat residence after noticing Lalit Chundawat’s absence for the morning
walk, as well as the fact that the shops were still not opened (the shop
usually opened at 6 am). Gurchana Singh founded the door of the house open and
the ten people, including Lalit Chandawat hanging. He raised an alert by
calling other neighbours and police received the call around 7:30.
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SUICIDES :
Ten of the eleven people-two men, six women and two teens were founded
hanging in the hallway.They were blindfolded and their mouths
were taped. Some of the bodies had their hands and feet tied as well. Another,
77 years old Narayani Devi was founded dead in another room. It appeared that
she had been throttled.
The members were founded hanging from mesh in their ceiling in the
hallway, all closed together. Their faces were wrapped almost entirely, ears
plugged with cotton, mouths taped and hands tied behind the back. There were
five stools, probably shared by 10 members.
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CASES :
There was "no outside
job" in the passings of 11 members of the Chundawat family, and notes in 11 diaries composed more than 11
years. There's proof that the family didn't hope to bite the dust, that they had
accepted they would "rise more grounded" after the ritualistic hanging.
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Footage from a camera with a perspectiveon the passage of the Chundawat
house shows a woman, her daughter and two children of the family bringing in
the stools and wires utilized in the mass hangings. All the members apparently died
together around 1 am.
The CCTV footage gives looks at the family willingly following the
directions of a man controlled by his father's spirit - Lalit Chundawat- 45, the younger son of the
77-year-old matriarch Narayani Devi. The diary notes indicate
that Lalit fantasized about his dead father encouraging him to salvation.
Another person who wrote in the diaries was Lalit's 30-year-old niece Priyanka
Chundawat, who had been engaged on June 17.
The diary notes also show that the family may have figured that the spirit
of Lalit's father would spare them. The last sentence in the final diary,
written on the day of the suicides, composed that : "keep water in a cup, when it
changes colour, I will appear and save you." After the "ritual",
everyone was to untie each other.
Footage shows that the family's youngest, 15-year-old Dhruv and
15-year-old Shivam, went to a furniture store downstairs and brought up the
wires utilized in the hangings. They were tied up by their parents.
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The following morning, 10 members of the Chundawat family, including the boys, were found hanging in the hallway of what has come to be known as
the "house of horrors". The wires were hung from a flame broil in a way that could be overseen by an insider with access to the rooftop, the police
say.
They were all blindfolded, clogged and bound - all with the exceptation Lalit's wife
Tina, who may have tied up all the others. The 11th, Narayani Devi, was discovered dead on the floor, also from hanging. Nine members had shared five stools.
"This was a final thanksgiving to the spirits," said a
police officer, clarifying that the family had imputed a run of good luck to Lalit's instructions. Their finances had improved hugely and Priyanka had
been engaged after a long struggle to find a match.
In the final diary entry on June 30 (Saturday), there were
instructions titled "Bhagwaan ka raasta (Road to god)". It said nine people would hang from the
"jaal" (a grill) and one person, "Baby" - the widowed
sister of Lalit and his older brother Bhavnesh - would be near the "mandir" (temple), on a smaller stool.
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The notes detailed the exact time for specific tasks; food had to be
ordered at 10 pm, "mother would feed everyone "roti" and the
"kriya (final act)" would be performed at 1 am.
The faces, ears and eyes were to be covered with "patti
(bandage)".
The steps were followed to the second, according to the timeline pieced
together by the police with help from the diary notes and CCTV footage.
- 10 pm -The more established daughter in-law of the family gets the stools.
- 10:15 pm - The boys Dhruv and Shivam bring the wires used in the
hangings
- 10:39 pm -
- 10:57 pm - Bhavnesh takes the dog
for a walk
- 11:04 pm - Bhavnesh and the dog go back in their house
- 5:56 am (July 1) - Truck abandons milk containers, which stay immaculate
- 7:15 am - Neighbour enters and finds the hanging dead bodies
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CONCLUSION :
It is the most mysterious case in India ever. Police and post-mortem
reports declared it as a mass suicide of a family in the name of of spiritual
practice or dark practice called “badh puja”, according to which full family
have to hang till death like the branches of a banyan tree to attain salvation.
It is also written in there occult diary, ‘THE ELEVEN STEPS TO ATTAIN
SALVATION’.
