Bodies of three members of a family found in a pond in Assam’s Nagaon district

The incident took place at Madya Tupakuchi under Raha police station in the central Assam district.

According to police, bodies of a mother identified as 32-year-old Niru Bordoloi and her two minor child were recovered from a pond nearby their house.

Niru and her two children went missing since Saturday night and some locals found them death in a pond on Sunday morning and immediately informed police.

Pandit Bordoloi who is a daily wage labourer and husband of the deceased woman said that, after taking dinner they went to go for sleeping last night.

“But at midnight, I found that my wife and two child were missing and I searched them in nearby areas. I thought that, they will come back and I went to my work in the morning. Later, I came to know the incident,” Pandit Bordoloi said.

Later, police recovered the bodies from the pond and sent the bodies to Nagaon civil hospital for post-mortem.

Arpan Saikia, Officer-in-Charge of Raha police station said that, during the preliminary investigation we suspect that it is a suicide case.

“We haven’t found any injury mark in the recovered bodies. We have sent the bodies to Nagaon civil hospital for post-mortem. But we will conduct an inquiry,” the police officer said.

(Reporting by Heamanta Kumar Nath)