chandigarh a 55yearold widow and both her sons allegedly committed suicide in their sector 15 house on wednesday morning preliminary investigations reveal that while madhur a senior assistant in the punjab state industrial development corporation psidc and her younger son anupam 27 consumed poison the elder son piyush 30 shot himself in the mouth with a countrymade 315bore revolverthe police suspect that the family took the extreme step due to longprevailing depression in the family the cops cited the lack of cleanliness in the house various marks of gayatri and other mantras on the walls and books of sad songs as indicators of thispiyushs body covered in blood was found lying on a bed while anupams body was found lying on the floor on a bedsheet madhurs body was found lying on the floor on a bedsheet in another roomthe deceased were living on the first floor of their house 1227 in sector 15 while madhurs isueless brotherinlaw lives on the ground floor with wife and 92yearold father balkrishanmadhur had secured the job on compassionate grounds following the death of her husband subodh kumar due to heart attack in 1993for the past five years rickshawpuller shambu had been taking madhur to her office in punjab udyog bhawan sector 17 but at around 10 am on wednesday when he saw the bodies in the unlocked house he ran back in fear and fell on the stairs he told vinod kumar and other family members about the incidentgetting the information igp satish chandra ssp gaurav yadav and other police officers rushed to the spot the incident seems to have happened at night or early morning vinod kumar told toc that he did not hear any noise in the night tuesday being a holiday madhur and her sons remained in the house we went to bed at 10 pm after closing the doors it was only on wednesday morning that we came to know about the incident vinod said adding after the death of my brother subodh there was no interaction between the two families though there was no dispute between us they never used to talk to us we are not aware about any dispute they had with anyoneno valuable was found missing from the house the police have recovered the revolver and one air gun from the spot the cops said anupam owned these arms as he had a hobby of shooting a bottle of poison was also found near the bodies interestingly the family used to keep pigeons in the backside of the house which were found fluttering around when the cops reached thereofficials from the central forensic scientific laboratory cfsl and crime branch also visited the spot ssp gaurav yadav said that prima facie it looked a suicide case but they were investigating it from all angles inquest proceedings have been initiated under section 174 of crpclabourer kills self chandigarh zile singh 55 a labourer living in janata colony sector 25 committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling