Summary:
In a shocking incident, a 45-year-old daily wage worker committed suicide in Tripura after allegedly failing to buy a smartphone for his daughter to attend online classes. Sukumar Bhowmik, a resident of Rajnagar Purathal village under Madhupur police station in Sepahijala district, committed suicide by hanging himself on Tuesday. After the lockdown in view of coronavirus pandemic, most of the schools across the country have started online classes. On Tuesday night Sukumar managed to get an ordinary mobile for his daughter, a student of Class X, but she wanted a smartphone for her classes. Sukumar did not have his dinner on Tuesday night and went off to sleep in a separate hut where he committed suicide, said a police official..