A blood cancer patient in West Bengal committed suicide live on Facebook on Saturday.
Arindam
Dutta (43), a resident of Purba Vivekananda Palli, Hakimpara, in
Darjeeling’s Siliguri, started a video from his Facebook account and
tied a nylon rope round his neck.
Five of his Facebook friends,
who noticed him, tried to persuade him against it through comments. Some
of them also called him up on his mobile but he did not receive them
and went on to take his life.
Police recovered Dutta’s body from his house on Sunday morning.
Minutes before killing himself, Dutta had called up his childhood friend, Mohammed Alam, who works as a journalist in Kolkata.
Alam
now regrets not being able to take the call. “Had I received the call,
probably I could have persuaded him to refrain from taking such an
extreme step,” he said.
“As I could not take his call, he called up my wife and told her that he is not interested in living,” Alam said.
He
also said that after being detected with blood cancer, Dutta’s friends
had assured him that they would contribute for his treatment.
“But
I had never imagined he will commit suicide. Incidentally, we had a
family get-together at Kolkata three weeks back, where Dutta was
present,” he said.
According
to his Facebook profile, he was self- employed and an alumnus of FDI
School in Jalpaiguri and AC College of Commerce, Jalpaiguri.
His
friends said, Dutta, a divorcee, was depressed for quite some time
after being detected with blood cancer. He was staying alone at his
residence at Siliguri and had a daughter, who is currently staying with
his former wife.
Dutta
used to run to run an Internet café in Jalpaiguri before he shifted to
Siliguri after selling his share in his family property there.
Achinta Gupta, assistant commissioner of police, said that the police is probing the matter.
Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com
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