Dejected over family’s opposition to his inter-caste marriage and unemployment, a 28-year old youth committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his Sagar Estate residence under Ayodhya Nagar police station area on Thursday.
According to the police, Rahul Shroff was found hanging at his residence on Thursday and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead.
A police team reached the spot and after preliminary investigation sent the body for the post mortem. Police have not recovered any suicide note but during the investigation it was found that the deceased used to remain depressed over his unemployed status. On further investigations, it came into light that the deceased was having a relationship with a girl of other caste and wanted to marry her.
The investigating officer ASI Vikram Singh said that the deceased completed his engineering degree from a private college and was searching job for the past one year. The family of the deceased was not agreeing for the inter-caste marriage due to which he used to remain depressed for the past few months, he added.
The deceased boy’s father is a retired bank employee. The police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and have started further investigation. Statements of the family are yet to be recorded which would help in revealing the reason behind the suicide in the investigation.