34yearold hangs himself, films it; blames inlaws in suicide note

NEW DELHI: A 34-year-old man allegedly hanged himself to death at his house in outer Delhi’s Pashchim Vihar on October 31. The police said the man, who filmed his suicide on his phone, has left behind a 17-page suicide note. The added that according to the note, the man committed suicide because his wife took their son and left him. In the note, the man has held his in-laws responsible for the differences between him and his wife, the police said.

According to the police, the incident took place on October 31 when the man, a collaboration builder, who had been living alone for the past few months, hung himself from a ceiling fan. The same day, when his family members tried to contact him and failed, they checked on him and found him hanging. They alerted the police and rushed him to a hospital where the doctors pronounced him dead.

The police said that during a search of the man’s room, a 17-page suicide note, headlined with “suicide note (murder)” was recovered. “In his note, he has stated that his parents-in-law and brother-in-law tortured and insulted him. The note stated that because of his in-laws, he and his wife started having differences, which grew in the past three months, forcing her to leave his house with their son,” an officer not authorised to speak to media said.

DCP (outer) Seju P Kuruvilla said that the case was being investigated under Section 174 of the CRPC. “No case of abetment to suicide has been registered so far. We are looking into the case,” the DCP said.