Teenager commits suicide

GANGTOK, 09 July: A 15-year-old girl has reportedly committed suicide in East Sikkim on 07 July. What is disturbing is that the 08-year-old cousin sister of the deceased witnessed the act. She had been asked by the deceased to accompany her to a field nearby where the deceased committed suicide by hanging. The cousin sister then informed their grandfather about the suicide.  

11-year-old boy’s death suspected as suicide

GANGTOK, 23 Apr: An eleven-year-old boy is suspected to have committed suicide at 6^th Mile, Tadong on 22 April. The victim was a resident of Siliguri, residing at 6^th Mile, Tadong at present. On 22 April the Ranipool police received a “call-book intimation” from the MO on duty of Central Referral Hospital [CRH], Tadong stating that one 11-year-old child had been brought dead to the emergency ward. Medical examination reportedly suggested that the boy had died of hanging at around 4 pm that day. The case is under investigation.

15-year-old commits suicide

GANGTOK, 06 Feb: A 15-year-old girl is reported to have committed suicide here in Gangtok. According to reports, the teenager was found hanging by her brother on 04 February in their home. The deceased was a resident of Sichey, Gangtok.

Teenaged girl commits suicide

GANGTOK, 04 Oct: A 16-year-old girl reportedly committed suicide by hanging in Rongli today. The girl was residing at her uncle’s place. This morning when the teenager did not wake up as usual, the uncle forced open the door to her room and discovered that she had committed suicide. The case is under investigation.

13 year old commits suicide in Sisney

NAMCHI, 15 May: Suicides continue to rob Sikkim of people, and the age-groups remain as erratic as the trend remains unexplained. In the latest instance, a 13 year old girl committed suicide by hanging at home at Sisney in West Sikkim near Jorethang on Tuesday night. The suicide was detected early this morning. While a police case has been opened to look into the suicide, it is obvious that there can never be any convincing answers to explain a suicide by a 13 year old. It is time that the civil society realized that suicides are not police cases of “Unnatural Deaths” for the cops to investigate, but a challenge which needs to be addressed in a collaborative effort between the government and civil society organizations.