Debt-ridden businessman commits suicide

A debt-ridden furniture dealer allegedly committed suicide along with his two teenaged daughters by jumping in the Ganga river at Narora today.

45-year-old Dharmendra of Aligarh district owed Rs one lakh to two creditors, police said.

Local boatmen and police fished out his body from the Ganga along with the bodies of his daughters Toshiba (17) and Bhawna (14).

The deceased is survived by his wife Pushpa Devi and a seven-year-old son.