An 18-year-old boy and a girl from his class both allegedly died by suicide in Kolkata while on a video call with each other.
The two deceased, identified as Jeet Biswas and Puja Mondal, were both around 18 and students of class 12 at the Sendanga Chaturdaspalli High School in the same neighbourhood in Ashoknagarin, North 24 Parganas. They also attended the same tuition classes.
Neighbours said that the two could have taken the extreme step because their families opposed their relationship.
However, the girl’s family said that they learnt of their relationship only after their deaths.
Police said that the two students were on a video call when Jeet first hanged himself.
After watching him Puja too handged herself from the ceiling.
Her family members grew worried after she did not respond for some time; they broke open the door to find her hanging
According to Dipu, Puja’s older brother, the video call was still on when they opened the door.
“The WhatsApp video call was still active on her mobile, and on the screen we saw the boy hanging. That was when we realised that the boy Puja was in love with had also died by suicide.”
Poojas' mother told reporters that she did not know about her daughter's relationship with the boy.
A team from the Ashoknagar PS arrived at the spot and took the bodies of the teens to the hospital/
“When the talk of marriage came up, she said that she would finish her studies and then get married,” she said. She claims that the family had no objection to marrying her daughter to the boy of her choice.
One of Puja’s friends said that the two were in a relationship from four to five years. “I heard that Jeet's family had an objection to their relationship. But I can't say that they were tense about it. I couldn't even understand anything from the outside. Everything was normal."
