The six bodies were found in mysterious circumstances from two separate houses in Sidhra area here on Jammu’s outskirts on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
On being called to the area, the police broke into a locked house and found two dead bodies. Four bodies were recovered from an opposite house in the locality. The deceased were identified as Jaffar Saleem, Rubina Bano, Noor ul Habib, Sakina Begum, Sajad Ahmed and Naseema Akhter.<\/p>\n
“As per reports, the bodies were partially decomposed,” a police source said. All six are stated to be family members. The police said the cause of the deaths is yet to be ascertained.<\/p>\n
There were five of a single family found from two houses located at Tawi Vihar locality in Sidhra on the outskirts of Jammu city late on Tuesday, said officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrima facie it appears to be a case of poisoning, though it has to be ascertained whether it is a case of forced poisoning or otherwise,\u201d said Jammu district police chief, SSP Chandan Kohli.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Tuesday, at around 10 pm, police received a telephonic call from a woman. She told us that her brother Noor-ul-Habib in Sidhra was not picking up her calls and she had apprehensions that he might have committed suicide,\u201d said the SSP.<\/p>\n
Police rushed to the spot and found the doors of the house bolted from inside.\u00a0\u00a0A foul smell was also stemming from the house.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe doors of the house were forcibly broken in the presence of civil witnesses (locals of Tawi Vihar Colony Sidhra). We found four dead bodies inside the house. A team of FSL experts and photographers were called in. An inquest proceeding has been initiated,\u201d said the SSP.<\/p>\n
The family worked for Noor-ul-Habib and lived in his house. They were like a family. They hailed from Doda and Noor-ul-Habib belonged to Barzulla in Srinagar,\u201d the SSP said.<\/p>\n
The dead bodies were shifted to GMC Jammu for autopsy and will be handed over to the legal heirs after medico-legal formalities.<\/p>\n
A SIT headed by SP rural, Sanjay Sharma, SDPO Nagrota Pardeep Kumar, SHO Nagrota inspector Vishav Partap and Sidhra police post in charge Majid Hussain has been formed to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n