Man hangs self with same rope after son’s suicide over unfulfilled smartphone request
Mumbai: A class 10 student’s desire to get a smartphone took a tragic turn in Maharashtra after his farmer father, owing to financial constraints, failed to live up to the boy’s aspirations.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the 16-year-old boy, the youngest of three brothers, was staying in a hostel in Latur, and had come home on the occasion of Makar Sankranti.
Back home, the boy requested his father for a smartphone for academic purposes, a request that the father failed to fulfill. On Thursday, the boy was found hanging from a tree in their farm in the village of Minaki in Nanded. A day later, the 16-year-old’s father was found hanging from the same tree.
The boy’s mother told cops investigating the case that the 16-year-old had been asking for a smartphone for a while, but things escalated on Wednesday after his father expressed his inability to grant him his wish. The father was financially constrained as he was repaying the loans he took for the farm and for a vehicle.
Upon getting to know that he would not be getting a smartphone, the boy left home that night, and his parents assumed that he had gone to the farm to sleep alone. When the boy did not return home the next morning, his parents and brothers mounted a search, and the father was the first to spot the 16-year-old hanging from a tree.
Devastated, the father brought the boy’s body down and hanged himself with the same rope from the same tree.
The double suicide came to light when other members of the family reached the farm. They subsequently informed the cops, and when the father-son duo were taken to a hospital, both were declared dead on arrival.
Their last rites were performed at the village on Thursday evening, following the completion of the autopsy.
