Bangalore: Suicide Threat to Girlfriend Ends in Manipuri Student's Death

Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, May 5: It was a day Seraphina, the 19-year-old girlfriend of deceased student Haisnam Jakoi (22), may perhaps never forget for the rest of her life. For, the love of her life committed suicide right in front of her, and she could do nothing to save him.

What would eat Seraphina more would be the fact that after their fight, she had ignored his threats to end his life. Little did either of them know that a simple stunt to threaten the girl would end in a tragedy.

As reported by The Times of India, Haisnam and Seraphina from Imphal had been in love for the past three years and had decided to get married after their graduation. However, their relationship turned sour after Seraphina reportedly began ignoring Haisnam. For a week, she neither called nor messaged him, which drove him to threaten her.

At around 11 pm on Thursday, the night of Haisnam's alleged suicide, the couple came to his flat after a shopping spree and went into Haisnam's room while his friends remained outside.

But the evening out together had failed to smoothen matters between them. Haisnam continued to quarrel with her and threatened to end his life if ditched him, but Seraphina ignored him and got busy with the stuff they had purchased. As per TOI report, such threats were common in their fights and nothing had come of it, so she did not take it seriously this time either.

Irked and annoyed by her continued neglect to his complaints, Haisnam went a step further. He got hold of a nylon rope, stood on a chair and made a noose out of the rope, with one end tied to the ceiling fan. He tightened the noose around his neck and went on with his threat, not really meaning to go ahead with the suicide.

But fate had different plans. The chair he was standing on suddenly gave way, and he was left dangling from the fan and gasping for breath.

"I saw him writhing in pain. I yelled to our friends outside, rushed into the kitchen, took a knife and cut the rope. By then Haisnam was barely breathing," police quoted the girl as saying.

She screamed for help, but it was too late by the time Haisnam's friends arrived.

"We found him gasping for breath. We alerted the neighbours and the police. We took him to St John's hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival," said Tony Logjam, Haisnam's local guardian, as quoted by TOI.

Haisnam was the son of an RTO officer and was staying in a rented flat with three of his friends from Manipur. The police stated that prima facie, it looks to be a case of suicide.