Having failed to provide treatment to his ailing wife due to abject poverty who was suffering from some abdomen disease, a 36-year-old man and his wife on Sunday night quarrelled with each other and later, committed suicide by consuming pesticide in Mahakalapada block.
According to police sources, the deceased couple has been identified as Prasant Kumar Swain and his wife Sabita Swain (30) of Gokhakhati village.
Prasant was eking out a living by working as a daily wager in the locality. Prasant failed to collect bread for the family. He had migrated to Koraput to work as a daily wager in a road construction work. Three days back, Prasant returned from Koraput but empty-handed.
His ailing wife Sabita, who had been suffering from stomach related disease since more than a year, telephoned him to come to the village as she was sick critically and she needed urgent medical treatment.
On Sunday night, the couple quarreled with each other as Prasant had no money for providing treatment to his wife. Prasant in an inebriated mood allegedly assaulted his wife. later, the couple consumed pesticide in desperation. As their health condition deteriorated, on the early morning of Monday, the couple was rushed to the Mahakalapada CHC and again shifted to the District Headquarters but both died there.
Kendrapara Town police rushed to the hospital, seized the bodies and sent them for autopsy .The deceased couple is survived by two minor daughters ,who are 8 years and 3 years old. Kendrapara Town police have registered an unnatural death case.
Mahakalpada BDO Kailash Behera stated that the block administration will provide a Biju Pucca Ghar to the deceased’s kin along with Rs 20,000 under Social Welfare Scheme.
The district administration would send the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) to visit the house of the deceased.