Man in RAK suicide survived major money crisis earlier

Abu Dhabi/ Ras Al Khaimah: The man involved in the suicide case in Ras Al Khaimah had successfully survived a major financial crisis about four years ago, but he could not do so this time, his relative told Gulf News on Tuesday.

Anil Kumar Nair, 44, had lost a huge amount of money he spent on five trailers which he took on rent from his sponsor in Abu Dhabi about four years ago, Ramesh Kumar Nair said. He gave back the trailers to the owner in a dispute, he said. A major portion of the payment included money he acquired by selling off his family property back home, he said.

As Gulf News reported earlier, the decomposed bodies of Anil Kumar Nair, 44, his wife Sreeja, 31, and daughter Anusree, 8, were found at their residence. Police sources said according to forensic investigations, the man and his wife allegedly hanged their daughter and then committed suicide by hanging themselves due to financial problems.

Nair had worked as trailer driver with a transportation company in Al Ruwais, Abu Dhabi. When the company shut down, he took an old trailer from them, repaired it and started his own business. Armed with confidence, he took four more old trailers, Kumar said.

"He brought around Rs3 million [around Dh 240,000] after selling off the property which was the only remaining link left between him and his homeland. He was the only child of his parents who had passed away long back," Kumar said.

He lost the money, but Nair was confident he would beat the odds. He moved from Abu Dhabi to Ras Al Khaimah and took a trailer on hire purchase with the help of a Dubai based transport company, said Kumar, who lived with him for one year in Ras Al Khaimah.

"He worked hard, paid the instalments of the hire purchase trailer and brought his family here," Kumar said.

He was ambitious and wanted to expand his business and purchased one more trailer through a bank loan. He started supplying cement to major construction companies. His wife Sreeja maintained the accounts of business at home, Kumar said.

"Sreeja used to say that there was a time they earned Dh30,000 per month and they had helped many friends and people in need," said Nair's Indian landlord who became a close family friend.

"But the business slided during the global financial crisis in 2008 and his business transactions did not go well," Jaffer Abdul Salam said.

"She used to sadly say that some of the people who took help from them did not support them during the crisis," he said.

An official at the public prosecution office in Ras Al Khaimah said on Tuesday that it has decided to release the bodies of the family for repatriation. The investigation will continue and it may take two more weeks, an official said.

An official at the public prosecution office in Ras Al Khaimah told Gulf News on Tuesday that it has decided to release the bodies of the family for repatriation. The investigation will continue and it may take two more weeks, an official said.

The bodies will be repatriated on Wednesday night on Indian flights , B. Gopakumar, General Secretary of Ras Al Khaimah Indian Association, said.