An Assistant Professor at Punjabi University of Patiala was amongst two people who committed suicide in two separate incidents at Chandigarh on Tuesday.
Mithilesh Singh, assistant professor at Punjabi University, hanged himself with ceiling fan at his residence at Sarangpur, Chandigarh.
During preliminary investigation, police found that Mithilesh was under treatment for prolonged depression at Government Medical College and Hospital at Sector 32, said Malkiat Singh, SHO, PS
Sector 11.Mithilesh lived at Saranpur with his wife and one daughter. In the morning, his wife informed police when she noticed him hanging with ceiling in his room.
Police rushed him to the GMSH Sector 16, where doctors declared him brought dead, No suicide note was found from the spot, said Ashish Kapoor, DSP/central of Chandigarh police.
In another incident, Bhupinder Singh, a resident of Sector 49, was found dead under mysterious circumstances. Police claimed it to be a suicide as a suicide note was also found from the dead body, which stated, “I am solely responsible for this extreme step”.
The dead body of Bhupinder was found hanging with the ceiling on the first floor of his house, by a neighbour. However the brother of deceased, Jitender Kumar, alleged that Bhupinder was murdered by his neighbour, Ballu.
Jitender alleged that both Bhupinder and a sister of Ballu, were having a love affair; however Ballu was against their relationship. Jitender also stated that this can be murder as the hands of Bhupinder were found tied on the back of the body.
Investigation in both the cases has been started by police and the dead bodies have been sent to postmortem at GMSH of Sector 16.