Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Alok Kumar stated: "We have found handwritten notes detailing how hands and legs are to be tied and are quite similar to the manner in which the bodies of 10 persons were found. Police found 11 diaries in the house, all of them maintained for the period of eleven years. Police also investigated the possibility of murder with a motive other than occult. Police initially registered a case of murder (due to immense public scrutiny, pressure from hardline groups and accusations of coverup from relatives) even though they believed the circumstances surrounding the deaths point to mass suicide for occult reasons. Tommy died of a heart attack on Sunday, 22 July 2018. He was later said to have been convalescing at Noida’s House of Stray Animals, where he was taken immediately after being rescued.
He was chained on the terrace and suffering from high fever when the police found him after discovering the 11 bodies. Tommy, the pet dog of the family, was the only survivor in the house. Their faces were covered with cloth pieces cut from a single bed-sheet. There were five stools, probably shared by the 10 members. Their faces were wrapped almost entirely, ears plugged with cotton, mouths taped and hands tied behind the back. Members of the family were found hanging from a mesh in their ceiling in the hallway, all close together. Another woman, 80-year-old Narayani Devi was found dead in another room.
Some of the bodies had their hands and feet tied as well. They were blindfolded and their mouths were taped. Ten of the eleven people – two men, six women and two teens – were found hanging in the courtyard of the house. He raised an alert by calling other neighbours, and police received the call around 7:30am. Gurcharan Singh found the door of the house open and the ten people, including Lalit Chundawat, hanging. On the morning of 1 July 2018 around 7:15 am, the neighbour Gurcharan Singh, who used to go on morning walks with one of the deceased, went to the Chundawat residence after noticing Lalit Chundawat's absence for the morning walk, as well as the fact that the shops were still not opened (the shops usually open at 5-5.30am). Since 2007 he had been maintaining a diary on his father’s "instructions". One day, he told his family that he was possessed by his father’s soul, who advised him the ways to attain a good life. After the death of theirįather, Lalit became very introverted. In 2007, Lalit Chundawat's father Bhopal Singh died of natural causes.