Woman hurt during vehicle check ends life

A 22-year-old woman, who suffered injuries after falling from her bike and got hit by a truck when she was stopped for vehicle check by police in Red Hills in September, committed suicide at her house on Friday night.

The deceased, Priya alias Priyadarshini of Jothi Nagar in Padianallur, was discharged from Government Stanley Medical College Hospital a few days ago after being treated for leg injuries that she sustained in the accident. But she complained of unbearable pain, claimed her kin.

The accident happened on September 20, when Priyadarshini was riding a two-wheeler to her mother’s house in KK Nagar near Red Hills with a cake to celebrate the latter’s birthday. When she was riding on Tiruvallur High Road near Gandhi Nagar around 7 pm, a Home Guard tried to stop her – Priya was reportedly not wearing a helmet. 

She lost her balance and fell on the road. Before she could stand up, a truck hit her from behind. This created tension in the area as the public went on a protest and set the home guard’s bike on fire, apart from damaging the truck glass panels.

Though she was married to one Yashwanth, she stayed at her mother’s house after being discharged from the hospital. On Friday night, she hanged herself in the house. It was her mother who first saw her body and alerted Sholavaram police. Her body was sent for post-mortem examination. However, when contacted, Sholavaram police maintained that she committed suicide due to familial issues.

A 27-year-old woman jumped from the third floor of a private hospital in Old Washermenpet and committed suicide in the wee hours of Saturday, just a week after giving birth to a girl child.

The deceased, Vijayalakshmi, was married to one Sathishkumar (30) of Arakkonam, an engineer working in a private firm. The couple lived in Alapakkam near Maduravoyal. 

In mid-October, she was admitted to a private maternity hospital in Washermenpet, where she delivered a girl child through caesarean. However, since the infant had breathing problems, the child was shifted to another private hospital in Vadapalani where the baby was kept in an incubator.

The child was brought back to Vijayalakshmi on Friday, but the latter was allegedly dejected over the child’s health as it had 

turned paler.

Police said that she had an abortion at the seventh month of her previous pregnancy and added that she complained of abdominal pain to her relatives after the caesarean.

Around 2 am on Saturday, Vijayalakshmi jumped from the third floor of the hospital. Shocked hospital staff rushed her to another hospital where she died within hours without responding to treatment. On information, Tondiarpet police have registered a case and further investigation is on.

Preliminary inquiries revealed though the couple resided at Maduravoyal, they chose the hospital in Washermenpet as Vijayalakshmi’s uncle became a father at this hospital after being childless for over a decade.

Dejected over her husband’s death, a 20-year-old woman committed suicide at her home near Oragadam on Saturday. B Rasidha of Serpananchery in Oragadam and R Balaji (22) of the same locality were in love and got married only a year ago. On Friday morning, Balaji, who was on the way to Padappai on his two-wheeler, was killed on the spot after a lorry rammed into him. After learning about her husband’s death, Rasidha was dejected and stopped talking with anyone. On Friday evening, after completing the final rites of her husband, Rasidha went inside her room. When her relatives checked on Saturday morning, they found Rasidha hanging from the ceiling. On information, the Manimangalam police, who arrived at the spot, retrieved the body and sent it for autopsy to the Chromepet Government Hospital.