KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Feb 21: A 47-year-old man committed suicide by jumping from the Kharkai bridge under the Bistupur thana area on Tuesday morning.
Identified as Suresh Gupta, the deceased had travelled over five km from his house at Parsudih to Bistupur by riding his Scooty for taking the drastic step.
The man had parked the two-wheeler on the Kharkai old bridge and left his cell phone on the vehicle’s seat before moving toward the bridge’s railing with several passersby looked on. Soon he climbed up the railing and jumped down.
The point he fell down was full of rocks and without water, he was instantly killed after being hit by the rocks.
By the time more people gathered on the bridge to see the shocking thing. While the onlookers were still bewildered, the cell phone that the deceased had left on Scooty’s seat rang, prompting one of them to receive the call. It was the deceased’s anxious daughter on the other end. It was at this point that the deceased was identified as Suresh Gupta.
The family members of the deceased had rushed to the spot within an hour after getting to know about the tragic incident.
A team of Bistupur thana turned up at the scene and removed the body to MGM medical college mortuary for postmortem.
“We are yet to get a formal statement from the bereaved family, but the reason behind the suicide must be related to some serious family dispute,” said Vishnu Raut while talking to lagatar24.com.
