Mother, 6-Year-Old Daughter Dies Of Poisoning, Mystery Death Under Investigation

A mother and her 6-year-old daughter were found dead under suspicious circumstances in their house in Vadodara, India on Monday, Oct.11.

The autopsy results of the 36-year-old mother, identified as Shobhana, and her daughter, Kavya, revealed they died of poisoning.

The duo was found unresponsive by the woman’s husband, Tejas in the wee hours on Monday when he woke up to use the bathroom.

“The girl was sleeping upside down, so the man changed her sleeping position. But when the girl did not make any movement, he became suspicious and tried to wake up his wife up, but she also did not respond,” Assistant Commissioner of Police, Bharat Rathod told the Times of India.

Tejas then alerted his brothers-in-law who live on the lower floor of the same house.

Shobhana’s brothers Shailendrasinh and Jitendra rushed to the home and found the mother and daughter unresponsive.

They were immediately transported to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared them brought dead.

The hospital authorities informed the police and the mother-daughter duo’s bodies were shifted to SSG Hospital for an autopsy.

“There were some injury marks on the woman’s neck, but the doctors who did the post-mortem ruled out that she would have died because of strangulation,” said Rathod.

The officer added that the viscera samples of the mother and daughter have been sent for further investigation.

“The exact cause of death will be known once the viscera report arrives, but preliminarily it looks that they died of poisoning,” Rathod said.

The investigators are probing the deaths to identify whether Shobhana consumed the poison and fed her daughter or whether they were poisoned by someone else.

“They had gone to the society’s common plot for Garba and returned at midnight. My sister and niece wished me ‘good night’ before going upstairs to sleep and at that moment they seemed completely fine,” said Shailendrasinh Bariya, Shobhana’s brother.

This is an ongoing investigation and no further details were revealed at the time of this writing.