India, Aug. 25 -- Preliminary investigations into the deaths of three family members after falling from a cliff in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar have pointed toward a long-standing family dispute as the primary trigger for the tragedy, a senior police official said.

DCP, Zone-2, Pankaj Atulkar, providing a follow-up on the investigation, stated that the household had been under significant stress for the past few months.

"Preliminary investigations reveal that there was a family dispute, which had created an atmosphere of stress in the household over the past two or three months. Distressed by this situation, the young man attempted suicide on August 21st," DCP Atulkar said.

Recalling the sequence of events that led to the triple fatality,...