This story is from November 19, 2020

Howrah: Unemployed youth kills parents, attempts suicide

Unemployment and the consequent financial distress, despite his masters in computer application (MCA) degree, drove a youth to murder his parents and inflict stab injuries on himself in the family’s Shibpur flat. The youth was taken into custody on Wednesday.
Howrah: Unemployed youth kills parents, attempts suicide
Subhajit Bose and the bodies of his parents were found in their flat in this building
HOWRAH: Unemployment and the consequent financial distress, despite his masters in computer application (MCA) degree, drove a youth to murder his parents and inflict stab injuries on himself in the family’s Shibpur flat. The youth was taken into custody on Wednesday.
Police broke into the flat on Wednesday morning after people in the neighbourhood on Shibpur’s Kaipukur Lane complained of foul stench emanating from inside.
Once in, officers found the blood-stained bodies of Gopa Bose and her husband Pradyut. While Gopa’s body was lying on the sofa in the hall of the third-floor flat, Pradyut’s was on the bed in the room next to it. In another room, police found the couple’s son Subhajit seated on his bed with blood smeared all over himself.
He was alive and sleuths realized that he had killed his parents and then tried to end his life by stabbing himself. He had inflicted stab wounds on his chest, hands and feet.
Locals said they had been getting a foul smell from inside the flat since Sunday. The stench slowly grew stronger and on Tuesday evening, neighbours repeatedly knocked on the Boses’ door, but got no response.
On Wednesday morning, the stench became unbearable and neighbours informed Shibpur police station. A team of cops reached the flat and broke in. It was then that neighbours and cops realized that Subhajit had been sitting inside the flat after murdering his parents.
While bodies of Subhajit’s parents, both sporting stab wounds, were sent for post-mortem, their son, who is in his late 20s, was taken for questioning. The murder weapon was also seized by the cops.

During interrogation, Subhajit told police that he got a job in March and had a April 1 joining date. However, he failed to do so due to the lockdown. Since then, he had tried but could not get a job. During this time, his family slipped into acute financial distress and they did not even have money to buy medicine and food for days. During this time, he was often told by his parents to earn money. It is this frustration and constant pressure at home, he claimed, that prompted him to give his parents sedatives on Kali Puja. Late in the night, he then strangulated them to death. He then sat by their side thinking of ways to kill himself, he said.
According to relatives, Pradyut had retired from a state public sector undertaking and the family was in grave financial distress for some years now. Subhajit’s parents would often berate him about his inability to find a job, which left the youth frustrated and angry, the relatives agreed. They added that they suspect a frustrated Subhajit snapped as he couldn’t bear the jibes any more.
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