Jamshedpur witnesses three suicides in 24 hrs
As the city gears up to celebrate World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, three people, including a teenager committed suicide in the steel city, since Sunday, with figures showing an alarming trend.
A student of RVS Engineering College succumbed to death after he apparently committed suicide in Bhilai on Sunday. Jagdish Kumar Singh (22) who used to reside in a hostel near Bhilai Pahadi near his college was rushed to the Tata Main Hospital in a critical condition on Sunday night. But despite efforts he couldn’t be saved.
According to information, Jagdish from Godda district and a student of third year engineering course and committed suicide due to an alleged failed affair with a girl of the same college.
The body has been kept in the Tata Main Hospital morgue and it would be sent to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem after the parents of the deceased student will arrive here.
Officials of the college confirmed about the suicidal death of Jagdish. But they refused to speak on what led him to choose the noose. They said that the student did not leave any suicidal note and the affair angle cannot be ruled out.
In another incident, 17-year-old lokesh a resident of Kadma Main Road who was staying with his grand parents and was aspiring for admission in an engineering college took poison to end his life.
The police have sent the body to the MGM Medical College for post-mortem after taking a statement from his father.
Bistupur police station, the officer-in-charge, Bistupur police station, Jitendra Kumar said, as per the statement of Man Singh this is a case of
suicide. In yet another incident, 26-year-old Vikas Prasad hanged himself at his residence under RIT police station area in Adityapur last evening. The family members rushed him to the Tata Main Hospital emergency, where he was declared as brought dead.
Vikas, an employee of an industrial unit in Adityapur, had an argument with his wife after which Vikas’s body was found hanging from the ceiling fan. The police have sent the body to the medical college mortuary for post-mortem after recording a statement from Kishori Prasad, father of the deceased.