Son Commits Suicide After Labourer Parents Say They Have No Money For Dussehra Clothes

Shabad: Poverty claimed the life of a tenth class student. A boy committed suicide not having money to buy some clothes for the Dussehra festival. The incident took place on Sunday at Shabad, Rangareddy district.

According to the police, Vadde Venkatesh and Sujatha are daily wage labourers, with two children. Praveen is pursuing his tenth standard at mandal government high school and used to live in a BC hostel.

He recently came to his hometown to celebrate Dussehra festival. Three days back, he asked his mother to buy him new clothes and she replied saying she will buy him clothes when they get money.

On Sunday, the boy again asked his mother for new clothes. She replied that that she still didn't have the money to buy clothes for him. A depressed Praveen committed suicide by hanging himself when he was alone at home. When his parents returned home for lunch, they found their son hanging.

Based on a complaint given by Praveen's father, the police filed a case and started probing the matter.

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