Unable to return home, migrant labourer from Kerala ends life in Chennai

Unable to return home, migrant labourer from Kerala ends life in Chennai
Migrant workers return from railway station as they arrived without any reservation tickets. Representational image by Mahesh G / BCCL
Chennai: A migrant worker from Kerala committed suicide in Chennai as he was unable to return to his native place, following the lockdown restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19.

The victim has been identified as T.Bineesh, 41 of Mudappilavil, Vatakara in Kozhikode district of Kerala.

Police said Bineesh hanged himself inside his room located on the first floor at Thyagaraya Pillai street in George Town.

"Bineesh and two others had received passes for returning to their native place. But due to some reasons he couldn't go. Hence, out of frustration he hanged himself," police sources said.

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Bineesh was all prepared to return to Vatakara on Tuesday night. A phone call he received from Kerala at the last moment informing him not to come from Chennai, which is a COVID-19 hotspot, had left him crestfallen, sources said.

Police suggest he consumed some alcoholic beverage on Tuesday night. He was found dead by hanging in his room on Wednesday morning.

It is understood that while getting ready to travel to Kerala he got a call from his native place after which he was found disturbed.

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In a suicide note he left behind, Bineesh noted there are some who suspect a Malayalee migrant returning to Kerala carries the virus with him.

"Both the governments didn't operate trains or buses. Nobody is there to save the crestfallen. Law is good, but what if it claims lives. My death may help Keralites in Chennai to return home. My loss will be for my family. My death is a protest of a migrant. There is no need for a pass to die," he reportedly said in the note.

His wife and children live in Vatakara. His aged mother was shifted to the house of a relative to enable Bineesh to go for home quarantine upon his arrival.

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Bineesh has been working in a tea shop in Chennai for the past three years.

Seven Wells police in Chennai registered a case. His body has been shifted to Government Stanley Medical College Hospital for postmortem.

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