Surat: Suffering from mental health issues, a 24-year-old teacher living in Nana Varachha ended her life on Tuesday afternoon by jumping off the terrace of a 14-storey building in Mota Varachha.
Police said that Jalpa Mudatiya, who lived in Jalaram Society in Nana Varachha with her father, wrote her final message to her brother living in South Africa and jumped off Princess House building around 3 pm. In her message to her brother, Mudatiya wrote that she did not have any problem with anyone, but as she was tired of mental depression, she was taking the extreme step.
“She did not live in the building from where she jumped, but we suspect that she had planned to end her life, so she reached here while searching for a high-rise building,” said a police official. Cops said that after leaving from her workplace in Nana Varachha around 12.30 pm, Mudatiya was seen in CCTV camera footage entering the building at 12.57 pm. She stayed on the terrace of the building for two hours.
Surat: The coronavirus claimed the lives of seven person, including three women and infected 603 others in Surat city on Monday. On Sunday, eight patients had died due to the virus.
According to Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), the city reported 603 fresh Covid-19 cases on Monday, which was the second highest in the state after Ahmedabad, taking the case tally to 52,878 in the Diamond City. The Covid-19 ‘hotspot’ Athwa zone continued to report the highest number of daily infections with 107 cases, followed by 87 in Rander and 80 in Limbayat zone.
The patients who died due to Covid-19 infection included a 26-year-old woman from Udhna, a 70-year-old man from Adajan Patiya, a 75-year-old man from Varachha, a 64-year-old woman from Parvat Patiya, a 73-year-old man from Nana Varachha, a 53-year-old woman from Piplod and a 65-year-old man from Jahangirabad.
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SURAT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will perform the ground-breaking ceremony virtually for the first phase of the Rs 12,020 crore Surat Metro Rail Project via video-conferencing. Deputy chief minister Nitin Patel, social justice and empowerment minister Ishwar Patel and BJP chief C R Paatil among other dignitaries will remain present at the venue at Diamond Bourses in the city.
According to sources, the metro project is 40.35km long and comprises two corridors. The 21.61-km-long corridor-I is from Sarthana to Dream City, while the 18.74km-long corridor-II is from Bhesan to Saroli. It will consist of 10 elevated stations in South-West Surat and connect Dream City with Kadarsha Ni Nal in the city’s core. East of that, the line will head underground towards Surat Railway Station for 3.46 km and onward to Chowk Bazar at 3.56 km.