On Monday night, a 17-year-old college student was found hanging from a tree near the Kalyan railway track. According to the police, it was a suspected case of suicide.
As told to Hindustan Times, Ashok Honmane, senior police inspector at Mahatma Phule police station, said, they found one of the two mobile phones - an iPhone 14 and a Redmi android phone – in his pocket ringing and on answering it, they got to know that his relatives, who reside in Gazipur district in Uttar Pradesh, were trying to reach him.
As per the investigation, he lived with his parents and two sisters. Recently, he had passed his Class XII exams with a score of 48% and had come down to his uncle’s home in Mira Road to explore the educational options for further studies in Mumbai. Honmane said, the boy’s father had kept INR 1 lakh in cash in their cupboard and two days ago, he discovered that there was no cash. Upon calling his son, the latter admitted that he bought an I-phone with the same money.
Honmane added that his father scolded him that he had saved his hard-earned money for his daughters wedding. Upset, he left his uncle's house on Monday without informing anyone.
A local resident found the boy hanging from a tree at Patripool around 9 pm. Police took him to Rukmini hospital where he was declared dead. Meanwhile, the Mahatma Phule police have filed an accidental death report. After a post-mortem, the body was handed over to the family for final rites, the police said.
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