The 19-year-old boy who died by suicide in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar earlier this week had reportedly attempted to end his life last year too, at the very same spot.
He had attempted suicide last year from the same cliff, but was persuaded by the police to drop the idea, NDTV reported. The police are now probing whether the dispute over the iPhone EMI was the only trigger behind the teenager’s extreme step, Times of India reported. This led to a heated argument with his father over the latest payment. Videos of the incident and the prolonged standoff taken by tourists and locals at the site surfaced on social media. When the teenager was near the edge, police and fire brigade personnel reached the spot and tried to bring him to safety. Fire service personnel also tried to spread a safety net at the base of the hill, but the boy kept moving along the cliff edge, making the rescue effort difficult. The teenager’s mother, who had witnessed the incident, also fell moments later. The bodies were recovered by police and sent for further formalities.
The 19-year-old allegedly went up the hill at around 10 am after an argument with his parents over his demand for a new mobile phone, PTI news agency reported.
The teenager had threatened suicide, prompting his parents, other villagers and police personnel to spend nearly three hours persuading him to give up the bid, according to NDTV. The boy had allegedly bought an iPhone and had been asking his family for money to pay the EMIs, police said. However, the incident on Friday was not the teenager’s first suicide bid.
Three members of a family died at Khavda Hill in the Tisgaon area in a freak sequence of falls from a hilltop that reportedly stemmed from a domestic dispute over a mobile phone. his parents also died while trying to save him While the 19-year-old had threatened suicide.
