Ghaziabad: A 20-year-old student of Ambedkar University in Delhi committed suicide in Ghaziabad, allegedly after being reprimanded by his father over purchasing bananas from the market.
The boy has been identified as Prince Kumar, a second-year student of Ambedkar University, who was pursuing a degree course in sociology.
The boy hanged himself from a ceiling fan in their ancestral home in Bhowapur near Kaushambi on May 22. Police received a memo about the boy’s death from Yashoda hospital in Kaushambi where he had been rushed by his family members.
The boy’s family also owns another house in Sector 2 of Vaishali and his father, Shiv Kumar, is a newspaper distributor. Police said the boy’s family did not want a post-mortem.
“Shiv Kumar had sent Prince to the market on the morning of May 22 to purchase bananas to feed monkeys. However, he returned home with a bunch of raw bananas. He was reprimanded by his father. His father sent hsim again to the market to exchange the
raw bananas with ripe ones. Prince went to the market with a cousin. The cousin picked up a fight with the fruit-seller following an argument over exchanging the bananas.
The fruit-seller later came to their home and said that the two boys had thrown about his wares on the street. Prince was reprimanded again, following which he is suspected to have taken the extreme step,” Anand Joni, the local councillor, who is also a neighbour of the family, said.
No suicide note has been recovered so far. “There were no external injuries on the body. The ligature mark on the neck seemed to have been caused by hanging. We did not persist for a post-mortem in accordance with the wishes of the family. Enquiries have revealed that the boy committed suicide upset over being reprimanded for buying raw bananas,” local police outpost in-charge Balram Sengar said.
