Businessman’s body found, five other ‘suicides’ in Kolkata

KOLKATA: The city recorded six suspected suicides from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon. The youngest victim was 18-year-old while the oldest victim was 72-year-old.
The residents of Jodhpur Park were in for a shock after the body Amit Sen (72), a businessman dealing in old cars, was recovered from the Baje Kadamtala Ghat. He had reportedly gone missing for the last two days from the Strand Road area after asking his driver to wait for him. A missing case was lodged with Hare street police station. On Wednesday, the North Port police informed Hare Street police about the victim’s body. His family members identified him.
An initial probe indicates that he might be debt-ridden, though cops refused to speculate anything, saying they will ascertain the cause of his death only after post-mortem.
In the other five cases, the victims reportedly killed themselves by hanging. two of them were women while the rest were men.
Police identified the youngest victim as Anurag Routh (18), a resident of Rabindrapally in Kasba. He had been reportedly depressed over the past few days but did not reveal the reason behind his depression.
A 21-year-old woman from Gosaba in South 24 Parganas was found hanging at her employer’s residence at Auckland Square on Tuesday morning. No suicide note was found from the spot. She was identified as Dolon Pramanik who was declared brought dead at SSKM Hospital.
Haridevpur reported two suicides. Trisha Duari (35) was found hanging inside her one-room home at Kalitala while the other victim Kalipada Basak (39) was found dead on the ground floor of his two-storey home on Baroda Sarani. The 56-year-old Annapurna Basak committed suicide at her home on Narkeldanga South Road. Cops said no suicide note has been recovered from her.