In a tragic incident, a 17-year-old son of a para-military official allegedly committed suicide in Bulandshahr over not possessing smaller denomination notes. It may be mentioned that after demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes by prime minister Narendra Modi, people are facing various problems to meet out their day to day expenses.
Reports said that Sumit, a class 12th student of Jaypee Vidyapeeth in Bulundshahr, was found hanging from the ceiling at his house in Anoopshahr area on Monday evening. According to the local police who rushed to the spot and sent the body of post-mortem examination, the boy had asked his mother to give him smaller denomination notes as he had no money to meet out his expenses on Monday morning. However, after his mother refused him as she herself was running out of cash, the boy was depressed and he took an extreme decision of committing suicide. He went to his room and later hanged himself to end his life. A case has been registered following a complaint by the deceased’s grandfather Mohan Singh. Sumit’s father is employed with the Border Security Force.
Meanwhile, a 40-year-old lady paid the price of her son teasing a local girl after she was shot dead on Tuesday morning. Reports said that son of Tulsi Devi, a native of Athaiya hamlet of Kotwali dehat in Etah, had teased the daughter of his neighbor few days back. On Tuesday morning, the family members of girl called Tulsi Devi and threatened to kill her son if she will not asked her son to stop teasing the girl. The matter took an ugly turn when hapless Tulsi Devi said that they can go ahead with legal action against her son if he not stopped making any excesses. This irked the family and they shot dead Tulsi Devi on the spot and brutally assaulted the other family members in which Rajesh, Praveen and Gaurav were critically injured. They were shifted to hospital and a case was registered in this regard against Harbeer and his family members. No one was arrested by the police till Tuesday night.