Click to play videoMumbai: Four suicides in the last three days, all youngsters who hanged themselves – the alarming trend has Mumbaikars worried.
In the latest incident, 13-year-old Gaurang Dalvi, a resident of the posh Shivaji Park in central Mumbai and a student of the prestigious Bombay Scottish School took his life allegedly because of a dismal performance in an exam.
Nobody, not even his parents, saw it coming.
“We suspect he may have not done well in his some subject,” says API (Shivaji Park) Mohan Ubale.
Another college student Anu Vishwakarma, 18, hanged herself after her father refused to pay for a new dress.
On Tuesday, a 14-year-old boy hanged himself at a shelter near central Mumbai. Martand Pujari had run away from his village in Karnataka and had been picked up by social workers at a railway station four years ago.
“I had never seen him disturbing anyone or showing any signs of depression,” says Darshita Dhediya, Counselling Psychologist, Shelter Home of Don Bosco
Agrees Father Rodrigues of the Shelter Home, “He was a normal child, who wanted to study and loved cricket.”
On Tuesday, a 12-year-old girl hanged herself in a chawl in a Mumbai suburb after allegedly having an argument with her aunt.
While it may just be coincidence it could also, just as well, be indicative of deeper, more worrying problems.
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