Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

12-YR-OLD BOY COMMITS SUICIDE IN CHAMBA

- HT Correspond­ent

SHIMLA :A 12-year-old student of Class 8, Vaibhav, committed suicide in Sihunta sub-tehsil of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in his house.

The victim’s father, Jagdish Raj, runs a Dhaba in Sihunta and the family lives in a rented house.

Jagdish, who was present in the house at the time of the suicide, rushed his son to the primary health centre in Samot after he found him hanging. The doctors pronounced him brought dead.

No suicide note was recovered from the spot. The police launched an inquiry under Section 174 of Code of Criminal Procedure to probe death.

“The boy was upset because he wished to go somewhere else for satsang instead of where his mother was taking him to. The body has been sent for postmortem to Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College in Tanda of Kangra district ,” said station house officer of Chowari, Jatinder Kumar Choudhary.

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