Surat: A man who earned a living by selling peanuts on road committed suicide due to the severe financial crunch he had been facing for a year now due to the pandemic.
The man identified as Bhaidas Dhole (45) hanged himself from a ceiling hook on the midnight of April 20. His wife Jyoti told police that Dhole had slipped into depression for quite a few months as his income had depleted due to the pandemic.
“He was worried about running the household and paying for education of his two sons,” said a police official. Dhole’s elder son studies in an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) and the younger in Class XII.