RUDRAPUR: A man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan after having a dispute with his wife, on Wednesday.
Naveen Singh (34), a resident of
Terai Vihar colony in ward number 25 of the city, was married to Sapna for eight years. The couple has a six-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son. The deceased worked as a driver in a factory in the Pantnagar industrial area.
According to police, three days back, Sapna had left for her parents’ house in
Pithoragarh district, after having a fight with her husband.
On Tuesday night, after Singh came back from work, he found his children crying because of hunger. After both the kids had fallen asleep, an upset Singh shut himself in his room. In the morning, his daughter found him hanging from the ceiling fan. She informed her uncle living in the neighbourhood. Police, after getting information, took the body to the district hospital and later sent it for postmortem.