Recent Suicides

September 14, 2008 at 7:39 am (Uncategorized)

Ahmedabad, July 5 In four years, Pinky (name changed) thought she had fought her share of battles. A lesbian, she got married to partner Shilpa against all odds in conservative Ahmedabad in 2004. Two years ago, again defying all odds, they had a boy, delivered by Shilpa through artificial insemination. However, two weeks ago, Shilpa committed suicide. Pinky’s back battling again, with Shilpa’s parents over custody of the child. For more information.

RAIPUR: A suspected suicide pact involving two teenaged girls has shocked a small hamlet in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district. The girls — Gansehia (15) and Asha (16) — set themselves on fire after their parents allegedly discovered they were lesbians and rebuked them. Police said the duo’s charred bodies were found in the fields of Kokla in Durg’s Bemetara block on Tuesday. For more information.

CHENNAI: Two married women, who allegedly shared a lesbian relationship, committed suicide by setting themselves ablaze after their families tried to separate them. The police recovered the charred bodies of the women, who died hugging each other, from the residence of one of the women at Sathangadu, near Thiruvotriyur, on Saturday. For More Information.

A youth, running a barber shop and his friend, a student, have been discovered dead due to burns in a rented house. Sivanarayanan (32), from Perumbilavu in Trichur, presently residing near Ajantha Theatre in Pandikkudi, Mattanchery (Kochi) and Deepak (17), son of Srikesh, R.G. Pai Road, are the deceased and their badly charred bodies were spotted in a room of the rented house Sivanarayanan had been occupying. The incident seems to have taken place at around 3 am on Thursday (26th). Both the bodies have been completely burnt. Police recovered a petrol can from the precincts. Police assumes that the two, who were intimate friends, had committed suicide together. For more information.