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July 6, 2012

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Bangalore, July 6: A 28-year-old man jumped to death from the Visvesvaraya Towers, which houses several government offices, on Ambedkar Veedhi on Thursday noon.

The dead has been identified as Narasimha, 28, a resident of Kalidasa Layout, Srinagar. The identity card found in the trouser pocket helped identify the body.

His family members learnt about the suicide through electronic media in the afternoon.

Narasimha’s parents – Narasimha Murthy, a carpenter and Ramakka – were inconsolable when they reached the spot. Ramakka collapsed on seeing the body. Narasimha’s wife Shwetha is eight months pregnant. They had married last year. Narasimha was working as a medical representative at a private company, Mahaveer Pharmaceuticals, in Chamarajpet.

Raju, a cousin of Narasimha said that the family was shocked at Narasimha’s decision to end his life specially when he was expecting his baby in a month’s time. Narasimha had met with a bike accident two months ago and suffered fracture in the leg. He took a long leave from work and had still not rejoined duty. Though he was cured almost a month ago, he had told his family that he was on ESI leave. “Now that he has committed suicide, we feel that he faced some problem at his office or he may have lost his job,” Raju said.

People at the busy Visvesvaraya Towers were shocked to see the man fall to death from the terrace of the 22-storey building. Before they could realise what was happening, Narasimha came crashing down and fell on an SUV parked in front of the main entrance.

The impact was so severe that the roof of the SUV had a big dent and the windshields were shattered to pieces. As he fell down, his leg got severed after it hit a platform on the second floor. The leg was thrown to a distance of about 30 feet near the road. The Cubbon Park police immediately took the body to Bowring Hospital.

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News Network
June 5,2020

Jun 5: The fear of contracting COVID-19 infection allegedly forced a 65-year-old man to commit suicide in Maharashtra's Beed district, police said on Friday.

The incident occurred at Mangewadi in Patoda on Thursday, when a passerby found the body of Asaram Pote hanging from a tree in his farm, an official said.

The police were immediately alerted and Pote's body was brought down in the presence of his relatives and locals, he said.

A suicide note was found on the deceased's person, in which he said that he had taken the extreme step as he was scared of contracting COVID-19 infection and no one should be held responsible for his death, the official said.

A case of accidental death was registered in this regard and further probe was underway, he added.

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June 30,2020

Visakhapatnam, Jun 30: Two people were killed and four others were taken ill after benzene gas leaked at a pharmaceutical company at Parawada near here early on Tuesday morning, official sources said.

The situation was now under control as the leak was restricted to one unit in the Sainor Life Sciences company, the sources said.

The two killed were senior employees of the company, they said.

The injured persons have been admitted to a hospital in Gajuwaka, with one of them being put on ventilator support, the sources added.

District Collector V Vinay Chand and Police Commissioner R K Meena visited the company to take stock of the situation.

The cause of the leak that took place in a reactor unit at the plant is yet to be established.

The incident comes nearly two months after 11 people were killed and over 1000 taken ill after gas leak at a chemical plant here.

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February 11,2020

Mumbai, Feb 11: A 65-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her husband over debt and illness in suburban Powai here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident came to light when Sheela Ajit Lad was found dead by her neighbours at Sukh Shanti Co-operative Society at around 9.30 pm on Monday, an official said.

The victim was allegedly killed by her husband Ajit Lad, who hit her on the head with a heavy object, slit her wrists and strangled her to death, he said.

The accused absconded at around 7.30 pm, leaving a note at the crime scene, saying he was going to commit suicide and had killed his wife because he was heavily in debt and she was suffering from an ailment, the official said.

The childless couple lived alone in the apartment, he added.

"On the basis of the note, we have registered a case of murder against Ajit Lad and have launched a manhunt for him. We have not traced him or found his body as he had mentioned suicide in the note," deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Zone X Ankit Goyal said.

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