India, March 1 -- The Dey brothers, accused of killing two women and a minor from the same family on February 18 in their Tangra house in Kolkata, told the police on Friday that Prasun Dey, the younger of the two, had slashed his wife and sister-in-law's wrists, while his elder brother Pranay claimed to have mixed sedatives in the kheer the previous night.

Police started investigating the case after the brothers were injured when they, along with Pranay's son, rammed their car into a concrete pillar on EM Bypass in east Kolkata last month.

Pranay told the police that it was an attempted suicide and that their wives had also died by suicide at their house as "the family, which ran a leather business, suffered financial loss and debts". L...