Lucknow: Doctor commits suicide after wife denies him non-veg food
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Lucknow: A doctor reportedly committed suicide in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar after his wife did not allow him to eat non-vegetarian food.
According to police sources, the doctor, identified as Umashankar, committed suicide by hanging himself in his home on Thursday night.
According to India.com, D Uma Shanker Gupta, a skin specialist, on Wednesday bought non-veg food for himself and his six-year daughter , who was asleep but was woken up by him after which both ate the food together.
When his wife Deepti Agarwal came to know about this, she got angry and an argument broke out between the couple over feeding non-veg food to their daughter. Following the heated exchange, Gupta locked himself in a room around 11.30 PM.
Half-an-hour later when Deepti knocked on the door of Gupta’s room, in a bid to apologize, he did not respond. She also called her on his phone but, he did not answer. Amar Ujala, reports that when the door was then slammed open, the doctor was found hanging.
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