A 23-year-old youth committed suicide by hanging from a ceiling at Ahirpura under Jehangirabad police station area on Monday.
According to the police, the victim Kamlesh Verma was found hanging at his residence and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead. A suicide note was recovered from near the body in which the victim has mentioned the reasons of his suicide that his friends Rahul and Chhotu used to harass him and he was also depressed over his unemployed status.
The police received information from hospital and after preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under Section 174 of the CrPC and have sent the body for the post-mortem. Investigation has been started and if the two persons mentioned in the suicide note are found guilty, a case of abetment to suicide would be registered against them, said police.
Meanwhile, two persons including a woman were arrested on Sunday after they were charged with harassing a 24-year-old married woman for dowry at Tilajamalpura. According to the SHO of Tilajamalpura police station DS Thakur, the victim Iram Fatima committed suicide on Saturday but the reason was clear at the time of the suicide.
During the investigation it was revealed that the victim was harassed for dowry and her husband Syed Naved and mother-in-law Naseem Sultan used to torture after which a case was registered against the family members of the victim’s husband. The name of the sister-in-law Sameena Sultan was also included in the FIR but she was not arrested as her role in the incident is under investigation.
The family members of Naved have claimed that Sameena used to live with her husband and should not be included in the case, he added. The police have registered a case under section 498 of the IPC and have started further investigation.