Man, woman commit suicide in UP’s Mahoba district

Banda, June 27

A 23-old-man and a 19-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by consuming a pesticide in a village in the neighbouring Mahoba district, police said on Wednesday.

The two committed suicide at Churari village under Kulpahad Kotwali police station area of Mahoba on Tuesday evening, SP N Kolanchi said.

“Both were in a relationship for the past three years but their families were opposed to it as the youth was married,” the SP said, adding that the girl who belonged to a nearby village had come over to meet the youth when both consumed celphos.

The youth called his family to inform about the extreme step and though both were rushed to a hospital, doctors declared them dead, the SP added.

Police station incharge Shankar Lal said the girl’s family had recently fixed her marriage elsewhere. PTI