Youth Webcasts Suicide to Lover

Kerala state in India has the maximum litracy rate in the country but in this state a medical student commited suicide which was demonstrated online by the victim. He wanted to demonstrat to his girlfriend living in Delhi how a man could hang himself to death probably for the cause of love.

The biggest irony of the situation was that it was a medical student, doing his BDS, who set the precedent in this connection and stunned the world.

Keeping the web camera linked to his computer on, he hanged himself to death for the cause of love.

Was it the senseless deed of a jilted lover.No one knows, except the boy and the girl themselves. The police are trying to decipher it using the web camera and the computer left behind by him.

The death of V.S. Karthik, 21, a 2005 batch student of the Pariyaram Medical College, in a hostel room a couple of days ago, wasn’t just another incident of suicide going by the evidence available now.

A section of the media opted to publish it in the obituary page possibly on the ground that the bigger question of ethics of journalism was involved in reporting the death in detail.

It was on Friday evening that the body of Karthik was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his hostel room.

The recorded piece of conversation available from the computer recovered from his room by the police show that Karthik, an introvert who had not many friends in his classroom, used to chat regularly with his girlfriend in Delhi.

Incidentally, on Friday evening the conversation centred on suicide. There were some hurdles in the fulfilment of their love affair, i f the replies of the girl to the queries raised by the boy recorded in the computer were anything to go by.

What Karthik had been talking to the girl could be understood through the response of the girl.

As the chatting was confined itself to suicide the girl was heard pleading with him not to take recourse to the extreme step. Minutes later, Karthik was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his room.

Possibly the girl could be helplessly watching it all on her computer screen as the web camera kept in Karthik’s room was focused on the ceiling fan from which his body was found hanging the next day.

The police made no attempt either to question Karthik’s girl-friend or to find out what she had seen on the computer screen that evening, although her response to what he had been asking for and talking about was recorded in his computer.

“No doubt, it is a case of suicide, but we aren’t sure how the girl would react if we go ahead with the probe and we can’t be instrumental in causing another such act” said a senior police official who refused to be identified.

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