A 34-year-old newspaper hawker allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree near Manuabhan Tekri under Koh-e-Fiza police station on Sunday.
Police said the visitors at the Manuabhan Tekri spotted a body hanging from a tree and informed the police. On the receipt of the information a police team was rushed to the spot and after preliminary investigation the body was sent for post mortem. In the initial investigation the deceased was identified as Prabhat Prajapati alias Munna. The deceased used to work as newspaper hawker.
Police have recovered no suicide note. The wife of deceased in her statements confirmed that her husband used to remain depressed for past few days. However, she could not give a convincing reason to his depression. She said her husband went to distribute newspaper on Sunday morning but when he had not returned till 10 pm she tried to contact him but was not reachable. later, she was informed by the police that her husband had allegedly committed suicide. The police have registered a case under Section 174 and have started investigation. The circumstantial evidences suggest that the height of the tree was not enough to hang and commit suicide but the deceased folded his legs to commit suicide. Possibility of any foul play could not be ruled out but at the moment nothing could be ascertained and could be revealed only later after receiving the post mortem report, police said. Family members of the deceased have denied any fight or old enmity of the decease in the past.