19-year-old attempts suicide in Mumbra

Mumbai: Two days after a  24-year-old student jumped to death from the 19th floor of a hotel in Bandra on Monday, a 19-year-old polytechnic student attempted to commit suicide on Tuesday by consuming phenyl and slitting his left wrist. The extreme step was taken following a quarrel between the youth, Chandan Singh,  and his Mumbra-based hostel’s inmates. Singh was rushed to state-run G.T. Hospital in south Mumbai early on Wednesday morning where he is undergoing treatment.

While talking to The Asian Age, Dr Vikas Medad, deputy superintendent of G.T. Hospital said, “Chandan Singh’s condition is critical and he is on ventilator. The wrist wounds are superficial but dressing has been done. He will be in ICU for three more days.”

Singh took this step after his friends confronted him about a complaint he had made to the hostel authorities about the inmates having dinner after the stipulated deadline of 9.30 pm.

Singh is a student of Government Technology College and was staying the college hostel in Shildaighar. Sources revealed that after the confrontation, Singh was very depressed and left the hostel premises on Tuesday morning. Following his sudden disappearance, his friends sent him a message asking for his whereabouts, to which Singh replied that his body would reach the hostel by night. Stunned by this message, his friends and teachers approached Thane’s Shildaighar police station. On the same night, Singh attempted to commit suicide.

Speaking to The Asian Age, DCP Manoj Kumar Sharma, Zone-1 said, “The boy is currently admitted in the hospital and is being treated. We will record his statement only after he regains consciousness. We are still probing the case and can draw inferences only after his statement. We have registered a case of attempt to suicide against him under section 309 (attempted suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.”

On Monday evening, Arjun Bharadwaj, a 24-year-old student of a Vile Parle based college, leaped to death from the 19th floor of the plush Taj Lands End hotel. He was live on Facebook when he took the extreme step, according to the police.