No end to suicides,three more end life

Lad was home when his father,who is retired,went out on Friday evening. He returned to find the body hanging from the ceiling fan. Samit’s mother had not returned from work in a private firm. No suicide note was found. “We will record statements of the parents to ascertain whether anything specific had spurred the suicide. We will also verify whether he was under any medication for his depression,” said the officer.

In another incident,the body of 15-year-old Siddharth Patil,a Class X student of Parle Tilak School,was found hanging in his residence at Samart Wadi,Vile Parle. “His father works at an imitation jewellery workshop and mother is a housewife. Both had left for their native village leaving Patil and his 11-year-old sister with a relative,Netaji Nerume. After dinner,the trio slept and the next morning,around 5.45,Nerume woke up and saw Patil’s body hanging from an iron hook in an adjacent room,” said an officer from Vile Parle police station.

In the third case,the body of 54-year-old Gajanan Murkute,who used to supply utensils to caterers,was found hanging in his Sankalp Niketan residence on Dockyard Road. The Byculla police said he was a bachelor and an alcoholic.