In shocking cases of suicides two youths ended their lives by hanging themselves in separate places in and around the Steel City during the past 24 hours.
While 23-year-old Mohammed Fayaz Zakirnagar in Mango committed suicide by hanging himself at his house on Tuesday morning, Ravi Kumar Singh ended his life near Shiv Mandir in Sundernagar. Ravi was a plus two commerce student in KMPM Intercollege.
In both the cases, the deceased have not left any clue to the circumstances that led them to take this drastic step. Gupteswar Singh, father of the deceased said that he runs a hotel at Sundernagar quare where as his family stays at their house near Sundernagar Shiv temple. He noted that his son was found hanging and was immediately rushed to the Tata Main Hospital emergency where he was declared as brought dead.
A police official confirmed it to be a case of suicide, but failed to say exactly what led to the suicide. “It is too early to comment on it but we are sure that it is a case of suicide, because the door was closed from inside the room, but still we have sent the body to the medical college mortuary for a post-mortem,” said the officer.
In another incident, Fayaz, who was a welder by profession hanged himself from the ceiling fan at his house in Zakirnagar in Azadnagar of Mango. Officer-in-charge Vidya Singh of Azadnagar police station said this to be a case of suicide. He said the deceased has left no clue to the suicide.
Mahavir Ram, a key functionary of Jeevan, a local outfit set up for preventing suicidal incidents in the city said there is no fixed pattern of suicide as several factors leads a person to commit suicide.
But recently there has been a spurt in the suicidal cases in the city," said Ram, adding that the media should also refrain from covering the news of suicide as the people get affected by going through the suicidal news.