Eight-year-old boy found hanging from window grille, cops probing ‘suicide’

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On Sunday afternoon, the boy’s father was on his duty and mother was out for work. His two siblings were playing outside the house. “When the mother returned from work, she found the boy hanging to the window grille with a rope. Lying next to him was a doll. The doll had been strangled with a rope and its head was covered with a cloth. Police were then called,” said inspector Satyavan Mane, in-charge of Wakad police station.

Inspector Mane added, “As the starting point of the probe, we checked all the possibilities. The investigation till now suggests that the boy may have strangled the doll and then hanged himself. The family members have told us that, the boy used to watch a lot of things on the phone and some of them might have had representation of violence or suicide. The family is currently in a state of shock. We will be speaking to the family and also those who know them well.”

In a separate case of possible suicide in Pimpri Chinchwad jurisdiction, a 16-year-old boy was found dead at his house in Dighi area on Sunday morning.