Depression drives young man to suicide in Rajkot

RAJKOT: Depression caused by drug addiction drove a 23-year-old son of a businessman to suicide in Rajkot on Sunday night.
Police said the victim, identified as Nitish Chauhan, was the son of Rajkot’s well-known providers of sound systems. He had hanged himself to death from the ceiling of the kitchen of his house when his father Bhikhu Chauhan had rushed out of his home, following a tremor experienced on Saturday night.
“Chauhan’s father in his statement said that Chauhan had had an addiction to marijuana, following which he was sent to a de-addiction centre in Surat. He was discharged from the centre four months ago. But since then he had been suffering from depression,” said J M Bhatt, sub-inspector with Rajkot A division police station.
“Chauhan was also addicted to PubG and other games on his cellphone which he used to play after closing doors of his room,” added Bhatt.