'You Ruined My Family': Teen's Mother's Old Video Surfaces After Hill Tragedy

A cryptic post by the mother of the teen who jumped to his death from a 250-foot-deep cliff in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar has added a fresh dimension to the police probe into the tragedy.

Multiple videos showed Kunal Chandgude, 19, standing on the edge of the cliff and threatening that he would die by suicide. His parents, Murlidhar and Sangeeta, urged him for hours to step away. His father then grabbed his hand to rescue him; however, both lost their footing and fell to their deaths. Within seconds, the heartbroken mother also jumped and died.

Police said Kunal had bought an Apple iPhone but was unable to pay the instalments. On Friday morning, he had a fight with his father over the EMIs before he went to the cliff.

Sources, however, said that Kunal had attempted suicide a year ago at the same spot, and that there were tensions within the family in the wake of the couple's elder son's death.

What piqued the police's interest in this probe angle was Sangeeta's social media post, which pointed to a family dispute.

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"You took away my and my son's rights, all over property. You never allowed brothers and parents to be together. You ruined my happy family. You poisoned my family... You separated my son from his parents. Your next seven generations will suffer. This is my curse," she said in the post.

She didn't name anyone or add any context to her social media post.

Police are trying to find out what the post meant.

The post has triggered speculation that a deeper family and property dispute may have contributed to Kunal's drastic step.

The sources said the couple's elder son had died six years ago due to an illness. Since then, they had been in a domestic dispute.

Because of the tension at home, Murlidhar immersed himself in his work and wouldn't come home for months.

Just two days before the family's deaths, Murlidhar had arrived home after three months, raising tension in the house.

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