Two end life over loss of livelihood

Nagpur: A 27-year-old vegetable vendor and a jobless driver committed suicide in two separate incidents in the city, police said on Wednesday.
In the first case, the vegetable vendor was said to be facing financial crisis due to increase in competition in Jaripatka area. With the imposition of lockdown, many jobless people started selling vegetables to earn a livelihood.This increased competition for the deceased Amit Gondane. On Tuesday, Gondane took the extreme step by hanging himself from the ceiling fan.
Gondane’s younger brother Suchit informed the police. Jaripatka police are probing further.
In another incident, 47-year-old Santosh Murle, a resident of Sakkardara, used to work with Kanak Resources Management Ltd. As the NMC terminated Kanak’s contract of door-to-door garbage lifting work, Murle lost his job. Despite assurances to get appointed in one of the two new agencies, he was not inducted. He remained jobless and had exhausted all his savings.
A dejected Murle on July 7 committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house in New Bidipeth, Sakkardara. On the basis of information by his 21-year-old son Prajwal, the Sakkardara police registered a case.