On the morning of July 2018, Gurucharan, aged 79, left his house for a morning walk. He reached the grocery store near his house, which usually opened by 6 a.m. Milk and bread deliveries were also left outside the store that day. The store belonged to the Chundawat family, Gurucharan’s neighbors for 22 years. Usually, a member of their family opened the store at 6 a.m. and accompanied Gurucharan for a walk. However, seeing the store closed, Gurucharan went to their house. Upon entering, he let out a scream of terror upon witnessing the scene inside. Hearing his cry, all the neighbors rushed there, and seeing the sight inside, fear gripped their hearts. At that moment, someone called the police.

When the police arrived at their house and saw the scene, even their hands and feet trembled. The bodies of 11 family members were hanging from the ceiling with nooses around their necks in the courtyard, and the body of the eldest woman of the house was in the front room. They had blindfolds over their eyes, and their hands and feet were tied with wire. Perhaps she fell down from above when the noose broke. The Chundawat family was a very good family. All the people in their house were very righteous and used to help everyone.The Chundawat family belonged to Rajasthan and had been living in Delhi since 1990. They had a successful plywood business and also owned a grocery store. The eldest woman in the house was Narayani Devi, aged 75. Her husband had passed away in 2007 due to a lung disease. They had two sons, Bhavesh and Lalit, and a daughter named Pratibha. Bhavesh had three children, Lalit had one son, and Pratibha had one daughter. These 11 individuals lived together in one house.

During the investigation, the police found 11 diaries in the house, indicating some sort of unusual influence. According to the neighbors, they had been following the instructions in the diaries for the past 10 years, starting from 2004. In 2004, Lalit, who was 35 years old at the time, was involved in an accident which left him speechless due to the shock. When Lalit’s father, Bhopal Singh, passed away in 2007, Lalit held a 10-day prayer ceremony for the peace of his father’s soul at their home. During the ceremony, Lalit suddenly stood up and began chanting “Om” loudly, as if his father were speaking through him. When asked by the neighbors about this, Lalit revealed that his father had appeared to him in a dream, promising to return. Since then, every night at 9 p.m., they conducted religious chants, sometimes with the participation of neighbors, and at 8:30 p.m., Lalit would begin saying that it was time for his father to return.

Lalit had a keen interest in the paranormal and used to watch many paranormal shows on his phone. He even occasionally visited graveyards. There had been significant changes in his lifestyle as he had stopped consuming non-vegetarian food and alcohol. Six days before his death, he started following the instructions written in the last diary. It instructed everyone to blindfold themselves, tie their hands behind their backs, hang a noose from the ceiling, and hang themselves from it to attain salvation. The diary stated that they wouldn’t die but would achieve liberation by doing so, between 12 a.m. to 1 a.m. It also mentioned that when the ground shakes and the sky breaks, he would come to save them. They followed these instructions, but no one came to save them, resulting in their tragic deaths. The neighbors suspect that Lalit might not have written the diaries, and they speculate whether Bhopal Singh, Lalit’s father, wrote them.

According to CCTV footage, two members of their household were seen purchasing stools and wire around 8 p.m. on the night of the incident. Psychiatrists diagnosed Lalit Chundawat with psychosis disorder, where a person becomes mentally ill and starts living in a delusional world far from reality. The other members of the household were also believed to be suffering from shared psychosis disorder, which led them to blindly follow Lalit. However, some neighbors refused to believe these explanations, arguing that the Chundawat family was not like this. The mystery remains unsolved whether it was a suicide or murder, leaving the case shrouded in mystery till today.