The increasing incidence of suicide in the State has left the psychologists deeply worried. The parents, school managements and the society as a whole must play their role to stop the youths from ending life this way, they said.  

A 22 -year old girl ended life by consuming poison in Pathri (Haridwar) on February 23 after her 35-year old brother Mahendra had scolded her for her relation with a local youth.

After the girl committed suicide, the brother went for the same as he was being held responsible for his sister's death. He consumed poison to end life the following day.

In another such incident, an 18-year old girl, resident of Haridwar, committed suicide by jumping before a speeding train on Tuesday evening.

The local police recovered her body from the railway tracks near Kotwali on Haridwar-Dehradun railway stretch on Wednesday morning. Police sources said that parents blocking her relation with a boy had made the girl to take the extreme step.  The incident was reported in Kotwali city police station area.

The next incident occurred on February 25 as a youth, native of Sonipat (Haryana), died after he and his girl friend consumed poison in Dehradun. However, the girl, a minor, survived the suicide attempt. According to police, they had eloped from their homes to get married in Haridwar.

They remained edgy with parents of the girl raising objection to the marriage on the issue of their caste differences.

Besides, in Nainital district, a youth Pankaj, a native of Dineshpur, Udham Singh Nagar shot himself and his fiancée dead on 24 February. They got engaged in December last. The wedding was slated in October.  Police are still in the dark as to the motive behind the crime.

With self-annihilation spree taking toll of youth's lives at regular intervals, associate professor Sangeeta Khullar, Department of Psychology, MKP (PG) College, opined that  the society must ponder over it deeply.

"The role of the parents is paramount. They must be sensitive to the emotions and impulses gnawing at the adolescent mind. Normally, the parents deem their children either as minors or as mature enough. Both these views are wrong, lop-sided. They should be taken as they really are - vulnerable to destructive impulses.  Besides, the schools have responsibility too. Proper counselling is a must at the school level to stop them from falling prey to such dark tendencies. School may include such subjects in the academic curricula to help them rid of such self-destructive tendencies," she said.