# Mother’s cryptic post deepens police probe in cliff deaths 2026-08-23T22:10:46+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Police in Maharashtra are investigating a fresh angle in the cliff deaths of three family members after a cryptic social media post by the mother surfaced. Sangeeta Chandgude, 40, posted a video accusing unnamed persons of ruining her family over property rights and cursing their next seven generations. The post came a day before she, her husband Murlidhar, 48, and son Kunal, 18, fell from the 250-foot Khavda Hill in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Friday. According to police, Kunal had argued with his father that morning over unpaid instalments for an Apple iPhone. He then went to the cliff and threatened suicide. When Murlidhar grabbed his son's hand to save him, both fell. Sangeeta jumped moments later. Sources told NDTV that Kunal had attempted suicide from the same spot a year ago, and that the couple's elder son had died six years ago due to illness, leading to prolonged domestic tension. Murlidhar had returned home just two days before the tragedy after three months away. Police are now trying to find what Sangeeta's post referred to. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both NDTV and ABP Live cover the same tragic incident with straight factual reporting and no discernible editorial slant. NDTV foregrounds the mother's cryptic curse post and the family's elder son's prior death, suggesting underlying domestic friction as key to the police probe. ABP Live instead highlights the mother's final video urging mutual effort in relationships, a softer human angle. Neither outlet adopts a government stance, as this is a local tragedy without political dimensions. Neither source overstates or omits crucial fact, though each selects a different emotional detail to lead with. The measured read: this was a family under cumulative stress, debt, bereavement, and estrangement, that snapped. The concrete next step is whether police verifies Sangeeta's post and establishes the property dispute's role in the deaths. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - ndtv.com (neutral report) Leads with the mother's curse video, foregrounds family history of elder son's death and domestic tension as the investigative thread. - news.abplive.com (neutral report) Leads with the mother's relationship-advice video, adds FAQ format, gives ages and location details earlier. This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-24T02:31:45+00:00. Tags: Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Kunal Chandgude, Maharashtra Police, Murlidhar Chandgude, Sangeeta Chandgude Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/mothers-old-video-surfaces-after-cliff-deaths-police-probe-family-feud/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/mothers-old-video-surfaces-after-cliff-deaths-police-probe-family-feud/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/