The efforts to reduce suicide graph in the city received a jolt when two persons, including a 40-year-old woman, committed suicide Sunday at Sonari and Parsudih localities of the city.
In one of the incidents, the woman, N Nirmala Rao committed suicide by hanging at her kitchen at Kagalnagar in Sonari. In another incident, a 30-year-old unidentified man committed suicide by jumping in front of a running goods-train along Muckkdampur under Parsudih police station area.
Police have recovered both the bodies and sent them to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem having registered cases.
The first incident of suicide was committed at a house on Road No 7 in West layout, Kagalnagar under Sonari police station area at about 6 am. Wife of N Ishwar Rao, the deceased Nirmala was found hanging from the ceiling fan at the kitchen at about 6 am.
According to police, the woman had got up from the bed at 4.30 am like she would do every day and prepared break-fast for her husband who is a Tata Steel employee. After husband Ishwar Rao had left for his office at 5.30 am, Nirmala committed suicide in the kitchen on the ground floor of their triple-storeyed building.
Sub-inspector BK Singh of Sonari police station said that the husband had claimed that there was nothing unusual with his wife and therefore he cannot say anything about the reason that prompted her to take this drastic step. But the relatives on condition of anonymity stated that Ishwar would drink excessively due to which the husband and wife would quarrel regularly.
In another incident, a 30-year-old man jumped in front of a running goods train and was cut into pieces on the railway track that passed through the Makdampur in Parsudih. Though the body could not be identified yet, the police have recovered it and have preserved it for the next 72 hours so that it could be identified.