Wife, 2 daughters jump into tank after prof ends life
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, September 24
A 38-year-old assistant professor at the Nursing College of Pt BD Sharma PGIMS here committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substances in his car near Kanheli village on Wednesday evening.
His wife along with two daughters also jumped into a water tank near Sun City when she came to know about the suicide.
The woman and her younger daughter died due to drowning while the elder daughter — Enna (10) — somehow managed to come out of the water and reached a house in Sector-2 here where they used to stay on rent before shifting to the PGIMS campus.
She then narrated the incident to the residents who later informed the police. The police fished out the bodies from the water tank on Thursday morning.
The deceased have been identified as Dr Pramod Saharan, his wife Meenakshi and daughter Prisha (4). Meenakshi too was a lecturer.
As per information, Pramod, along with another professor, had gone to Gurugram in his car to take an exam at a medical college there on Wednesday morning. He dropped the professor at her house near double rail crossing on coming back to Rohtak in the evening.
Later, he drove the car towards Kanheli village where he consumed poison in his car and informed his friends about it. The friends rushed to the spot and took him to PGIMS where he was declared brought dead.
Bijender Singh, SHO, Shivaji Colony police station, informed the exact reason behind the extreme step was yet to be ascertained. A suicide note had been recovered from Pramod’s car wherein he did not blame anyone for the suicide.
Sources said that as soon as Meenakshi learnt about the suicide of her husband, she, along with her two daughters, went to a water tank near Sun City on her two-wheeler and jumped into the water on Wednesday evening. Enna, who knew how to swim, came out of the water.
Shamsher Singh, SHO, Urban Estate police station, said they took Enna to the spot at night to rescue her mother and sister but the divers could not locate them as there are four such water tanks.
“On Thursday morning, divers again launched the operation and fished out the bodies. The bodies have been handed over to their kin after the post-mortem examination,” said Singh.
