In an unfortunate incident, a 15-year-old boy apparently gripped with fear over costly repair charge of a mobile phone, here today committed suicide.
The incident occurred today when body of the deceased identified as Dharmendra Badonia, a native of Krishnapuri colony under Azad Nagar police station was found hanging from ceiling of his house.
The deceased, a student of standard 9, according to police, had sometime back had got his mobile phone repaired from a youth Gajju Choudhary.
According to family members, initially Gajjy Choudhary had informed about mobile repair cost as Es 750, however, when the deceased went to his repair shops to collect his repaired mobile phone, the latter demanded Rs 5,000 as mobile repair charge from the deceased.
As Dharmendra did not have the required amount, he returned home without collecting his mobile phone. Thereafter, the mobile phone mechanic continued to put pressure on him for payment of mobile repair cost.
One day the accused also visited Dharmendra's house for collecting mobile repair charge from him.
Few days back, the accused with the help of some other person had threatened Dharmendra for the payment of mobile repair.
Since, the deceased had no courage to ask his parents for giving him such a large amount for the repair of his mobile phone, gripped with panic, he committed suicide at his residence by hanging himself.
Soon after receiving information, Azad Nagar police rushed to the incident site, took possession of the body and sent it to M Y hospital for postmortem. Meanwhile, Azad Nagar police have registered the case and stared probe into the matter. According to family members of the deceased, Dharmendra besides studying also used to supervise vegetable shop of his parents.