The city’s suicide fever shows no sign of abating. At least six persons, including three students, ended their lives on Tuesday.
The city’s suicide fever shows no sign of abating. At least six persons, including three students, ended their lives on Tuesday, taking the toll in the city and surrounding areas since the beginning of the year to at least 33.
In the latest case, a Std XII student committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his Kandivli (West) home on Tuesday. Police said Deepak Upadhyay, 18, a resident of Poisar, committed suicide around 8:30pm. “Deepak was hanging when his father returned home from work,” a neighbour said.
About an hour ago, the lad was outside his house telling someone that his mother had gone to the market to buy vegetables. There is no indication why the teenager killed himself, inspector Vinayak Mule of the Samta Nagar police station said.
A couple of hours earlier, a young sari salesman hanged himself at his Mulund home. Deepak Wagh, 23, lived with his brother at the BMC quarters in Siddharth Nagar, Dumping Road. Again, no reason was immediately known.
Earlier, in the afternoon, a Std X student committed suicide by hanging herself in her Byculla house. Sejal Deepak Patil, 15, was a student of St Agnes High School. Her prelims had got over a day earlier. No suicide note was found.
Sejal, too, was alone at home when she took her life. Her mother Meena works for MTNL, while father Deepak is employed with Bharat Petroleum. Her elder sister Priyanka, who left home at noon, returned at 3:45pm to the shocking sight of Sejal hanging from the ceiling. The TV set was on.
At about the same time, a 42-year-old security guard ended his life in the same way, hanging, at his house at Waghbil, Thane. An officer of the Kasarwadavli police station said Rajesh Kamble was found hanging at about 2:30pm. Police did not find any suicide note, but they said he was ‘frustrated’. Local residents, however, claimed that Kamble had tried to molest a minor girl a day earlier and her mother had threatened to complain to the police.
On Monday night, a 19-year-old resident of Bharat Nagar in Chembur hanged himself from the ceiling fan at his residence. Vijaykumar Gupta, who helped his parents run their small grocery, had been looking for a job in vain. At about 11pm, Vijay went to the shop, attached to their residence, and hanged himself from a fan, police said.
The rest of the family was asleep in another room. It was after a while that Vijay’s elder brother Ajay, 21, heard his screams and rushed to the shop to find him hanging. He immediately brought him down and with their parents rushed him to a private hospital in Chembur from where he was shifted to Rajawadi Hospital.
Vijay died at 9am on Tuesday. An officer from the RCF police station said he was a school dropout. Vijay’s kin said he had apparently promised his parents a comfortable lifestyle but was unable to provide it.
At Mira Road, a 40-year-old woman, mother of three, hanged herself with a nylon rope on Tuesday afternoon. Police said Sangita Kurade was depressed for the past six months. Her husband, Ramesh, is a BEST bus conductor. The family lived in Govind Nagar. The couple has two daughters, one of whom is in college, and a son, in Std VIII.
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