It was a spine-chilling Sunday morning for the residents of Delhi’s Burari area. 11 members of the same family were found dead inside their two-storey house in Burari. Ten members of the family including brothers, their wives, children, were found hanging from the ceiling of the living room. They were blindfolded and had tapes wrapped across their mouth. In the other room, the 75-year-old matriarch of the family was lying dead too.

It appeared like a case of mass suicide. However, the police haven’t found a suicide note from the house. According to reports, what the police found was a diary or a notebook that had notes on how to carry out rituals to attain salvation. The Indian Express quotes a senior police officer of the Crime Branch as saying that the police are “trying to ascertain if the family indulged in occult practices or if they were followers of a godman”.

While the story itself is horrifying, The Times of India thought best to add the picture of the family members hanging from the ceiling to its front-page. No, they did not even bother to blur the faces of the family members.

Note: We have blurred the image. 

The Delhi editions of leading English dailies such as The Indian Express (page 3), The Hindu (front-page), Hindustan Times (front-page) also gave much-needed coverage to the report. But unlike, Times of India, editorial control was exercised while choosing an image.