A 26-year-old youth committed suicide by hanging from an iron beam at his residence on Babai Road under Sakchi police station area on Monday.
The deceased, Sarat Kumar Ray, had consumed liquor before he committed suicide. Despite efforts from several city-based social organisations, the suicide graph is climbing in the Steel City. As many as 193 people committed suicide in the city till November, 2014. In 2013, 216 people committed suicide. Out of 193 people, who killed selves in 2014, 28 were students.
The police have recovered the body and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem. Assistant sub-inspector of police, Mahima Hero said the victim was suffering from depression. A relative said that Sarat had returned home late in the night. As he was moving around at the residence, the deceased's mother Usha Devi scolded him and took him to his room, where she made her to sleep. When she went to make Sarat awake from the sleep at about 7 am today, she found her hanging from the ceiling fan.
Youngest in three brothers, Sarat was an electrician and would eke out an earning by doing electrical wiring at residential premises and shops. His eldest brother Surendar is an employee of Tata Steel and they all were living at the residence as joint family. Officials of city based suicide prevention center Jeevan, said that a complete report of the suicide trend in the city is being filed. However, as of now cases of suicide is still being reported.
M. Ram, director of Jeevan, said that during 2014 a total of 575 distressed calls were received.