Suicides in city goes up by 32 per cent

Whereas, all the four metropolitan cities recorded a fall in the number of people killing themselves

A 19-year-old girl hanged herselfat her Chandkheda residence on Sunday after the man she was in re lationshiprefused to marry her.» A 21-year-old medicine aspirant, committed suicide whenher name did not appear in the admis sion merit list on July 3. Her body wasdiscovered by her parents from her house.

Gujarat has much to worry about on people valuing their lives as Ahmedabad recorded 32.6 per cent rise in the number of suicides in 2014 over the figures for the previous year.

Incidentally, all metropolitan cities -Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata -recorded a fall whereas the number of people killing themselves in the city increased from 671 in 2013 to 890 in 2014. The data was published in `Accident deaths and suicides in India -2014', by the National Crime Records Bureau on Saturday.