Burari Family's Ritual Suicide

In 2018, the Burari deaths shocked India when 11 members of the Chundawat family were found dead in their home in Delhi, 10 of them hanging with blindfolds, and the elderly grandmother strangled. The mass deaths were part of a ritualistic suicide orchestrated by Lalit Chundawat, who had convinced the family that the spirit of their deceased patriarch had commanded them to perform the act for salvation. The family, deeply devoted to each other, believed they would survive and reunite in the afterlife, as Lalit had promised. The tragedy drew widespread attention and horror, exposing the dangers of blind faith and psychological manipulation within a close-knit family.

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