4 of family end life in hotel in Assam

Four members of a family, including a minor girl, committed suicide in a hotel in Assam on Wednesday. They left a suicide note accusing a suspended police personnel and ex-MLA of ditching him by not giving job despite taking money.

The police on Wednesday said that they recovered the bodies of Prasanta Kumar (36), his wife Pompy Kalita (26), sister-in-law Anamika Kalita (21) and their minor daughter from the room of Hotel La Sun City in Ganeshguri area of the city on Wednesday.

The deceased had checked in the hotel on Tuesday. The police said that all of them are suspected to have consumed poison.

The police said that a suicide note, addressing Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal and health mi-nister Himanta Biswa Sarma, was also recovered from the room.

The deceased, Prashant Kumar, in his suicide note confessed to have collected '77 lakh from 62 aspirants for government job about three-four years back and handed over the money to a suspended police personnel, Pulin Gogoi, who was connected to an ex-Congress MLA.

Pointing out that he himself had deposited '5 lakh for a job for himself, the deceased in his suicide note has alleged that he collected money from unemployed youth on the assurance of Pul-in Gogoi to provide th-em job. However, Gogoi failed to provide job and refused to return the money.

Failing to resist the pressure from those who paid money for the job, Prashant chose to commit suicide, the pol-ice said, adding that the deceased has also pleaded that his old parents should not be harassed for money which he handed over to Gogoi.

The deceased while asking chief minister and his minister for action against Pulin Gogoi and his associates has also referred some names who were know to the entire incident.

The incident has created sensation in the state with family members claiming that they came to Guwahati on Tuesday to meet Pulin Gogoi but could not meet. Police said that they have sent the bodies for postmortem and started investigation.