Pune: TCS employee kills wife and 8-year-old son, commits suicide later

Pune: The city police on Wednesday found a TCS employee and two members of his family dead in mysterious circumstances in their house in Aundh area.

The incident came to light this afternoon, after a missing complaint about the trio was lodged at the Chatushringi police station here late Tuesday night.

According to a preliminary information, one Sudipto Ganguly (44), who was working as an IT engineer at TCS company here, allegedly killed his wife and their eight-year-old son before he committed suicide by hanging himself.

As Sudipto Ganguly was not picking up the phone calls of his brother from Bangalore on Tuesday night, his brother then called his friends, who filed the missing complaint, police said.

Sudipto's brother came to Pune on Wednesday morning and in afternoon, he along with the police reached Sudipto's house in Aundh area and they found three bodies there.

Apparently, police believe that in a pact of suicide, Sudipto smothered his wife Priyanka (40) and son Tanishk with plastic bags before he committed suicide by hanging himself.

Further investigation into the crime is underway, sources added. (UNI)