The suicide note recovered from Saurabh Nagpurkar pocket referred to the fatal accident of a 14-year-old boy he had witnessed a month ago on Umrer road. He repeatedly mentioned how his soul beckoned him from time to time and how it was not letting him live peacefully and kept materialising in visions and voices.
He also mentioned that he met with two minor accidents caused by the boy’s soul which was obstructing his path. Family members confirmed that Saurabh met with an accident at the very place where he had witnessed the accident.
Saurabh had constantly been discussing the accident with his friends. He told them how the soul of this boy, who died in front of him, haunted him and persistently called upon him.
His grandmother Sulabha said nobody knew what he was going through apart from the fear he expressed as a result of the accident he witnessed. “Citing uneasiness, he refused to have his dinner with us. We had gone to attend an engagement. On returning, we called him to the ground floor to join the rest of the family but the door was locked. We found him hanging when we opened the door.”
The police observed that the boy was very studious but had not been talking to anybody for about a month.
Saurabh ended his life by hanging himself with the ceiling fan in his room. In the note, he repeatedly asked his parents for forgiveness and urged his sister to look after them. His father Yashwant, an NCC employee and mother Aishwarya are devastated and inconsolable.
Psychiatrists, however, explain the extreme step as an outcome of psychosis which takes the form of hallucinations and claim that the same can be cured with medicines and counselling.
Saurabh was reportedly very compassionate and always looking forward to helping homeless people. He lately celebrated his birthday at an orphanage.
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