30-yr-old kills self over wedding date postponement

Jamshedpur: A 30-year-old man committed suicide in the early hours of Sunday at his house in Vishwakarma Nagar in Mango area under Olidih police station limits over the indefinite postponement of his wedding, police said on Monday.
Sources at the Olidih police station said prima facie it appears to be a case of suicide but police have registered a case and their investigation is on. The body will be handed over to the family after the autopsy is done, the sources added.
Deceased Sanjit Gupta’s father, identified as Rajendra Prasad Gupta, said that on Saturday night, his son went to his room after having dinner and around 4am, the latter woke up to use the washroom but he found Sanjit hanging from the ceiling fan in their living room.
An inconsolable Rajendra, standing outside the autopsy room of MGM hospital here, said, “My son was scheduled to get married on April 25 with a girl from Aurangabad in Bihar but as the lockdown came into force, the wedding had to be postponed which had an adverse effect on my son.”
He added that Sanjit, who owned a grocery shop, soon went into depression and he stopped communicating with family members and friends. Sanjit blamed the ongoing lockdown for disrupting his marriage plans and he often had suicidal thoughts, Rajendra said. “I often tried to tell him that it is not easy to arrange a marriage ceremony in this crisis period but he was not ready to listen. I urged him to have patience and wait for the lockdown to be lifted but he never paid attention to my requests,” Rajendra said.
With Sanjit’s death on Sunday, Rajendra lost his third son. His eldest son Ashis had drowned in Subarnarekha river in 2000 while another son Dilip, who went to New Delhi to look for a job, has been missing since June 24, 2012. Till date, the family has not been able to trace him.