Crime file: Man kills himself with gelatin stick

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Crime file: Man kills himself with gelatin stick

Hyderabad: A 35-year-old man stuffed a gelatin stick in his mouth and set it off to end his life after a quarrel with his wife. The incident occurred at Babulreddynagar near Mailardevpally on Thur-sday morning.

The man, P. Yadgiri, died instantly after his head was blown up right in front of his wife. Police said that Yadgiri, who works in a quarry as a stone-cutter, had an argument with his wife. She wanted him to go to work, which he had missed for seven days. He was drunk at the time of the incident.

At around 8.30 in the morning, Yadgiri was on the terrace of his house. “He got drunk in the house after having a fight with his wife. She was nagging him to go to work as he had not done so for one entire week. He went to the terrace and stuffed the explosive in his mouth and set it off,” said Md Akram Basha, Mailardevpally sub-inspector of police. He is investigating the case.

His wife, P. Aruna, tried stopping him but failed. Ms Aruna informed the neighbours and then called up the police. “As the stick exploded, half of his face was blown to pieces, and he lay on the terrace. Since the injury was serious, he died on the spot,” the cop said.

The cops are yet to find out where Yadgiri had procured the explosive from. The police team who visited his house conducted a search to find out if he had kept more explosives there.

Aruna told the police that since Yadgiri did not go for work for the past week and was getting drunk all day, she admonished him and asked him to stop drinking. Aruna, who runs a clothes shop in the same area, was not aware that her husband had explosives with him.

Aruna and Yadgiri have three children — one girl and two boys. When the incident occurred, they were fast asleep in the house. Police have booked a case for suspicious death under CrPc section 174 (to inquire and report on suicide) and section 4 (punishment for ...keeping explosive with intent to endanger life or property) of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908.