Marriage nod denied, teens end lives in Surat

  • | Wednesday | 10th February, 2021

An 18-year-old boy and his 17-year-old cousin sister were found hanging from a ceiling fan in a room of the boy’s residence in a chawl in Sachin GIDC area on Monday evening.Preliminary investigation revealed to the police that the duo took the extreme step after their respective parents disapproved their union and were refusing to get them married. The family members told the police that Santram’s mother and Lakshmi’s father are cousins. The cousins knew each other since their childhood and lived in nearby villages in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh.

An 18-year-old boy and his 17-year-old cousin sister were found hanging from a ceiling fan in a room of the boy’s residence in a chawl in Sachin GIDC area on Monday evening.
Preliminary investigation revealed to the police that the duo took the extreme step after their respective parents disapproved their union and were refusing to get them married. The family members told the police that Santram’s mother and Lakshmi’s father are cousins. The cousins knew each other since their childhood and lived in nearby villages in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh.

According to the families, instead of refusing their demand directly, they tried to delay the matter on the pretext of financial crisis which the lovelorn teens did not seem to buy.
Bodies of Santram Nishad and Poona Nishad were found hanging on Monday evening after the boy’s family members returned home from work. The deceased used the same dupatta to hang themselves and kept the front door open. The bodies were sent for post mortem and preliminary findings revealed that they killed themselves in the afternoon.

Santram was a labourer but was jobless since lockdown. He lived with his two brothers and all of them worked as labourers. Lakshmi used to stay in her village but had come to live with her parents a few months ago. Her father is a labourer too. “They developed a relationship in past four to five months. They wanted to marry but the family members were not ready,” said the police.


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