A 28-year-old youth committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling fan at his house in Golpahari under Parsudih police station area past midnight. The deceased identified as Pramod Kumar was an auto-rickshaw driver and was unmarried.
Police have recovered the body today and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem and registered a case of suicide on the basis of statement made by Asha Devi, mother of the deceased.
According to the statement made by Asha Devi, her son had an affair with a married woman residing at their neighbourhood.
“ We are shocked and never knew that he will take such step. My son had gone to meet the woman last evening and had come out of the house taking Rs 5,000 and returned home late in the night. As he was apparently disturbed we were keeping an watch on him and at about 12.30 am we found him hanging from the ceiling fan,” said the deceased’s mother in her statement.
According to Asha Devi, after detecting Pramod was hanging, they tried to open the door which was bolted from inside.
OC, Parsudih police station, Animesh Gupta confirmed it to be a case of suicide.
“As per our information. The deceased had an affair with a woman in the neighbourhood and some members of her family had raised serious objection about the extramarital affair of the woman. We are probing into the case which will also be supervised by a deputy superintendent of police,” said Gupta.
A resident of Golpahari said that the brother-in-law of the woman in question had threatened Pramod with dire consequences if he does not stop having the illicit affair. He said it was out of fear the deceased had become very nervous and committed suicide.