lamenting her failure to "get" lord Shiva despite years of austerities and fervent devotion, a woman committed suicide in a temple here, police said on Saturday.
Anisha Sharma immolated herself in the premises of a temple to the deity at Inchapuri on Gurugram-Pataudi road on Friday evening. The 22-year-old, reached the temple on Friday evening after college, performed some religious rituals in an under-construction hall on the premises before she poured petrol over herself and set herself afire.
"After devotion and austerity for several years, I have failed to get lord Shiva, so I am sacrificing my mortal body," she wrote in a suicide note recovered from the spot, police Officer Raj Kumar told IANS.