CG Breaking: Lover couple commits suicide, dead bodies found in fields

Kanker. A couple committed suicide in Koylibeda of the district. The lovers could not bear the separation and both of them thought that dying together was better than not living together and both of them committed suicide by consuming poison. This case is of Gudabeda. According to the information received from the police, Shanti Darro, daughter of Sukdev Darro, resident of Patelpara Gudabeda, was engaged on Saturday, June 15. She was not happy since the engagement. She had been in a love affair with a youth of the same village, Sonu Komra, son of Budhram Komra, for some time. The lovers had vowed to live and die together. After the engagement of the girlfriend, both of them met outside the village in Dharamuraam Anchala’s field on the night of the engagement and consumed pesticide.

Here, the family kept searching for both of them the whole night, but both were not found. On June 16, at around 6 am, villager Ramdev Poya told that both Shanti Darro and Sonu Komra were lying unconscious in the field. On receiving the information, the family reached the spot with the villagers, where both were found hugging each other in the field. According to the villagers, the girlfriend had died, but the boyfriend was still breathing. Both were taken to the hospital, where doctors declared Shanti Darro dead. The boyfriend also died during treatment. It is being told that the girl Shanti Darro is a resident of Sarndi. She was studying while staying at her maternal grandparents’ house in Gudabeda. The engagement ceremony was also conducted at the maternal grandparents’ house, but both did not accept the love for one person and marriage with someone else and both embraced death. At present, the police have registered a case and are engaged in investigation.