This story is from April 30, 2020

Migrant, walking from Hyd to Gondia, commits suicide in Wardha district

Migrant, walking from Hyd to Gondia, commits suicide in Wardha district
Wardha: A migrant committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in a farm under Girad police station in Wardha district on Thursday. Police said Amarsingh Madavi (45), a resident of Chillari village of Devari tehsil in Gondia district of Maharashtra, had been walking from Hyderabad.
“He got tired after several kilometres in the hot sun. On Thursday around 5pm Ajay Zade (a farmer) called us with the information and we found that Madavi had hung himself using a towel,” said Girad police station API Mahendra Suryavanshi.
Finding a mobile, which was switched off, in his pocket, Suryavanshi spoke to his family members and asked them to come to the spot.
“After post mortem at Samudrapur rural hospital, the body was handed over to the kin on Friday,” he said.
Madavi had called a friend in his village four days earlier. “Madavi told him that he had lost his job in Hyderabad after the lockdown and was also running short of cash. Hence he chose to walk back home,” said Suryavanshi.
Sources informed that Madavi was part of a group of around 20 migrants who were walking. “A truck picked them up on the way. When the truck driver resumed the journey after a lunch break on the Wardha-Nagpur district border, all others barring Madavi got in. That’s when they realized that something was amiss,” said Suryavanshi.
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