A 45-year-old person, Kulbeer Singh, resident of Premnagar, committed suicide by consuming poison on Thursday. Premnagar police rushed to the spot and sent the body for post-mortem.The report of autopsy is awaited. The police officer said that prime facie it seemed to be a case of suicide.“He was unemployed and addicted to liquor. His family members scolded him for indulging in boozing too much. This left him depressed,” he added.
Meanwhile, three suicide cases over the past one week have been reported from the State capital. On April 16, an Army personal Rajesh Thapa committed suicide by hanging himself in the bathroom.He had recently got transferred to Dehradun from Delhi. He was in a depressed state of mind due to domestic problems. Thapa resided at Indirapur Colony area in Clement Town, it is learnt.
In another such suicide case that happened on April 15 when Naveen Thapa committed suicide by hanging from a fan, near Malsi under Rajpur police station area. He worked as a watchman in a private institute. Three suicide cases in three days in the state capital have left the psychologists deeply worried.
With self-annihilation spree taking toll of lives at regular intervals, the associate professor Sangeeta Khullar, department of Psychology, MKP (PG) College, opined that all living in the society must ponder over it deeply. “The role of the family members is paramount. Proper counseling is a must for those who are depressed to stop them from falling prey to such dark tendencies,” she added.