Pilibhit: Two teenage boys committed suicide in two different incidents in Pilibhit. While the reason behind the first suicide is not known, a heartbreak is suspected to be the reason behind the other. Police have recorded information on both cases and one of the bodies was sent for post-mortem.In the first case, a 16-year-old student of class 10, Mayank Gangwar, hanged himself in his house in Bisalpur town. The reason as to why he took the step is not yet known. According to Madho Singh Visht, SHO of Bisalpur Kotwali police station, the boy returned home from Radha Madha Public School, Bareilly, on Saturday afternoon, and entered his room as usual. When he didn’t emerge from his room for his tuition classes in the evening on Saturday, his family members went to check and found him hanging from the ceiling fan.“On request of Gajendra Kumar, Mayank’s father, who is a teacher in local SRM Inter College, the police did not send the dead body for post mortem,” the SHO said.In the second case, 17-year old Ravi committed suicide by hanging himself from a mango tree in his father’s sugarcane field in Patihan village under Seramau North police station. A resident of Patihan village, the deceased was a student of class 10 at a private college. He had left home at around 4 pm and didn’t come out till dusk. Meanwhile, locals informed police after spotting a body hanging in a sugarcane field. Police reached the spot at around 9 pm on Saturday and the deceased was identified as Ravi.“The body was hanging with a plastic cord at around 30 feet above the ground from a tree. The words ‘I luv u R’ and the symbol of a heart were found carved on the deceased’s left arm,” said the SHO of Seramau North police station, Atar Singh.Ravi’s father, Shankar Lal, a farmer and a mini rice plant owner, simply filed written information about his son’s suicide. Police suspect a love affair gone wrong to be the reason behind the incident, the SHO said. “We have sent the dead body for autopsy and we will closely examine the report concerned to find out whether it was a case of suicide or some criminal act,” Singh added.

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