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TV suicide: Boy dies imitating act

NEW DELHI,Febrauary10,2012: A 12-year-old boy committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence in Jafrabad area of northeast Delhi. The incident took place on Tuesday morning, police said. The victim's family told police the boy had seen a TV serial where a man had tried to hang himself from a fan and that he may have tried to emulate him. The deceased, Mohammed Suhail, was a student of Class V. His parents were not at home at the time of the incident. The boy had enquired about the suicide sequence he saw on TV from his mother, who upbraided him for doing so. "She had dissuaded him from thinking about it. We are probing whether it resulted in his committing suicide," said a police officer. Cops did not recover any suicide note from the spot.

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