A woman poisoned her five minor children and then took her own life in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district, police said on Friday. She was evidently depressed over declining relations with her policeman husband.
"In a suicide note, the woman has alleged her husband was a drunkard and used to assault her and their three daughters and two sons," police inspector Ghanshyam Pandey told reporters in Banda, some 250 km from Lucknow.
Thirty-eight-year-old Vimla Devi, wife of police constable Manoj Kumar, was found dead Friday afternoon along with her five children, aged 9-13 years, at her house in Attara locality.
"A case has been registered against Vimla's husband, who is absconding," Pandey said."He is posted in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district."