Woman Kills Self After Believing Boyfriend's Fake Suicide Story

A 24-year-old woman ended her life after believing a fake death story her boyfriend had plotted in order to convince her parents to approve of their relationship.

The deceased woman, Sakkamma, a resident of Channarayapatna in the Hassan district of Karnataka, India, used a saree to hang herself from the ceiling of her home on Wednesday, Dec. 15, after being falsely informed about the death of her boyfriend, Arun, authorities said.

According to the police, Sakkamma and Arun had been in a relationship for about two years. Although Arun had convinced his parents to agree to their marriage, he could not do the same with Sakkamma’s family.

So he hatched a plan of his fake suicide with the help of his friend, Gopal. Arun asked Gopal to call Sakkamma’s brother-in-law, identified as Prajwal, and pose as a police officer to inform them about the manufactured suicide story.

Gopal told Prajwal that Arun had attempted to take his life and was admitted to the hospital in critical condition. He then threatened to press criminal charges against Sakkamma’s family if they continue to oppose the wedding.

Prajwal informed Sakkamma that Arun had killed himself. Devastated by the news, Sakkamma decided to end her life, police said.

“I was pained by the opposition of both our families to my marriage with Arun. I can’t live without him,” Sakkamma wrote in her suicide note, the Times of India reported.

Her family has filed a complaint accusing Arun and Gopal of abetting her suicide.

Based on the complaint, the Peenya police registered a case of abetment to suicide under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and arrested Arun and Gopal.

This is an ongoing investigation and no further details were available at the time of this writing.

In a similar but unrelated incident, a 16-year-old boy accidentally hanged himself to death in front of his friends while enacting a suicide stunt to gain followers on Instagram.

The deceased teen, a resident of Indore in Madhya Pradesh, India was reportedly attempting to shoot a fake hanging sequence for Instagram reels when the tragedy unfolded on Monday, Dec. 13.

The teen stood on a stool, tied a rope to the ceiling fan in his bedroom, and fashioned a noose around his neck, police said.

His friends were capturing the act on a cell phone when the boy accidentally slipped from the stool and began choking. The horrified witnesses ran away while their friend strangled himself to death.

The incident came to light when the teen boy’s elder brother returned home from tuition and found him hanging in the room. He alerted the neighbors and the teen was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead.

The police have registered a case of unnatural death and were inspecting the boy’s phone to gain a better insight into the matter.