Couple ends life after chat
Apparently depressed over her boyfriend’s death, a 19-year-old girl from Tanguturu village in Shankarpally immolated herself in her home on Saturday night. The two deaths took place within half-an-hour of a telephone conversation the two had about their relationship. The mobile phones of both have been sent to the cyber lab at the Cyberabad police commissionerate for analysis, said the police.
The youngsters identified as Lavanya, 19, and Yellesh were related and lived opposite each other.
According to the Cyberabad police, they were in love for the last oneand-a-half years. Yellesh worked as a security guard in the city, while Lavanya who worked at a private hospital recently quit her job and was staying at home.
“On Sunday Yellesh came to the village. In the evening, he and Lavanya spoke to him over the phone. While the conversation was on, Yellesh’s friend Srikanth got suspicious as his friend was feeling upset as he was talking, and asked him if he could deal with the problem. Yellesh who was drunk by then, went home and told his parents that he was going out and would never come back home,” said Chevella ACP T. Swamy.
The ACP said that Yellesh took the bike and went out into a field and hung himself from a tree. His elder brother saw him hanging and informed his parents. Lavanya, who lives in the house opposite Yellesh’s, heard of the hanging and doused herself in kerosene and set herself alight.
“Parents of the deceased persons are still unsure about the reasons that forced them to take the extreme step. Their parents were not even aware of Lavanya and Yellesh’s relationship. Prima facie, it is understood that the youngsters had a heated conversation. They have been sent to the cyber lab for analysis, to extract their conversations to find the reasons for suicides,” said the ACP. The State Excise and Task Force (SETF) police arrested a person on charges of illegal possession of dry ganja powder and seized 12 kg of the same on Sunday.
According to the SETF police Kamal Kishan, 45, the accused, was selling dry ganja in his shop-cumresidence in Kolsewadi, Begum Bazar, Dhoolpet.
Speaking to this newspaper, SETF, Inspector of police, Prasad said, “By using the tender cannabis leaves they make Bhangu. They grind the tender ganja leaves and dried it into round golis. They mix it with milk and consume them.” For a beverage it is mixed with milk and filtered, then often flavored with kusha grass sugar, fruit, and various spices.
The dry ganja powder was mainly used for making Bangu. Possession of ganja in any form is punishable offence under Section 34 (a) of Telangana Excise Act, which attracts punishment ranging from three to five-years of imprisonment.