Inter-caste marriage claims two lives in MP village

According to sources, Ranjan had written to the district collector and the superintendent of police informing them about their plight and had said how the community elders had boycotted them and was putting pressure on him to annual his marriage with Ruchi.

“They are not only harassing us but also maligning our pure relationship,” Ranjan wrote in the letter dated June 23.

The district administration, however, did not respond to the letter. It was only after the news of the twin suicides reached the district collector’s office that the local police was asked to register an FIR against the men who were named in the letter on charges of abatement to suicide. No one has been arrested yet.

In her suicide note Sangeeta wrote that she was forced to take the extreme step as she could not withstand social boycott and continued harassment from the community.

Ranjan, who worked as a computer operator at a local mill, was in office when he came to know that Sangeeta had committed suicide. He was heart broken. Soon after, he consumed poison.

“How can I live when my sister has taken her life,” Ranjan said in his dying declaration. Sub-inspector Mohan Sarban, who took down the dying declaration, said the community had cut off relations with Sangeeta’s family and insisted that she drive Ranjan out. He said the letter had not reached the police station in time.

The police have registered a case of an abetment to suicide against Raju Singh, Manoj Singh, Shivcharan and Tara Singh, who were named in Ranajan’s letter, and Sangeeta’s husband Parshuram.