A 32-year-old school teacher who was a Dalit allegedly jumped into the Yamuna river along with his wife and three minor daughters and committed suicide on Monday evening. The bodies of the victims is yet to be recovered but the cops claimed to have found a suicide not according to which family reasons and poverty are the reasons which forced them to take extreme step.
Reports said that Amar Singh (35), a resident of Karman hamlet of Hodal in Palwal district of Haryana was working as teacher in the local primary school at Karman locality of Mathura. On Monday evening, he along with his wife Meena (28), daughters Ekta (8), Anupma (6) and Aditi (4) reached Shergadh bridge in Mathura on a motorcycle. They parked the bike and later Amar reportedly threw his daughters one by one in Yamuna and later he and his wife also jumped to end their lives.
local police claimed that Amar called up a colleague and a relative just before the incident to tell them that he was depressed and was going to take the extreme step, along with his wife and three daughters. The relatives rushed to the bridge but found only Singh's bike and footwear of the family members there. later divers were sent to fish out the bodies, but that failed to locate it. later on search of the bike’s boot the cops recovered a suicide note in which the victim said that he was fed up with poverty and regular family feud so he and his wife decided to end their lives along with their children.
Meanwhile two more cases of suicides were reported from separate districts. In Hathras, upset over a family dispute, a youth allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his licensed revolver in Bisawar area. Sanjeev Kumar (25), who was upset due to a family dispute, shot himself in the Sadabad locality of Bisawar area on Monday evening. He died on the spot.
In another case reported from Meerut, a 27-year-old shop owner allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in Sardhana locality. The deceased identified as Bittu, was living in his in-laws' house in Sardhana area and ran a grocery shop in the locality. He shot himself at the rooftop
of the house on Monday night. local police who rushed to the spot and send the body for post-mortem examination claimed that they were probing the matter to find out the reason for taking the extreme step. The body was sent for post-mortem examination.