A painful incident took place on Wednesday night in Thakurpur number one of Gulriha area of Gorakhpur. Within an hour the father and son embraced death. Angered by his father’s slapping, the son committed suicide. The father could not bear this shock and was hurt and killed himself. Not only the family but the entire village was mourned by this news. Police sent both the bodies for post-mortem.
Ram Vilas Patel (48), a resident of Thakurpur No. 1 Tola Gadhiya of Chargawa block of Gulriha area, used to work hard while living in Mumbai. He is survived by his wife Shambhu Devi, two sons Govind (22) and Akash (18) in the family here. Daughter Pushpa is married. Ram Vilas’s elder son Govind currently works in Mumbai. According to the people around, there used to be discord in the family due to some or the other issue. Ram Vilas and his wife Shambhu Devi used to have disputes over small things. On Wednesday also there was a dispute in the family regarding some issue. After this Shambhu Devi called on dial 112 number and called the police. The police made a reconciliation between the two. Late in the night, the dispute started again between the two. Shambhu Devi says that Ramvilas started beating her and son Akash.
Angered by this, son Akash went to the terrace and closed the door of the room from inside and committed suicide by hanging himself in the ceiling latch. People broke open the door and took him to the hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead. On the other hand, after the news of his son’s death, Ram Vilas first tried to commit suicide in the same trap but people stopped him. Still, Ram Vilas could not stop himself and went to his under-construction house 200 meters away from the house and committed suicide. People informed the police about this painful incident on Thursday morning. Police is probing the matter. At the same time, mourning spread due to two accidental deaths in the same family within an hour.
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