Depressed widow kills kids, self on Karva Chauth
By IANSThursday, October 8, 2009
AMRITSAR - Feeling depressed on the day of Karva Chauth, a festival in which Hindu women fast for their husbands’ long life, a young widow in this Punjab city killed her two minor sons and committed suicide, police said Thursday.
Baljit Kaur, 32, gave poison to her two sons, aged 10 and six, and consumed it herself at her home in Dashmesh Nagar Wednesday night.
Her husband, Rajinder, a sub-inspector with the Punjab police, died two months back.
Baljit Kaur and her sons were taken to a government hospital where doctors declared them dead.
She was feeling depressed since Wednesday morning, the day of Karva Chauth, and was weeping, relatives told police officials.
She was moving around holding a photograph of her husband since morning, a police official said quoting relatives.
