A woman in Uttar Pradesh's Agra district has committed suicide on Friday with acountry-made gun. The woman was a mother of two children and the incident took place inVidyapuram Colony.
The 30-year-old woman has been identified as Mona Dwivedi and as perthe reports she locked herself in her room and shot self with the gun in herchest around 10 am in the morning. She left behind a note addressedto Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which she clearly stated “ensure thesafety of women in their houses.”
Hearing the voice of the gunshot the other female membersof the house broke into her room and found Mona lying on the floor in the poolof blood. She was rushed into a hospital but the medical fertility pronouncedher “brought dead”.
Before taking this huge step, she wrote three big pagesof a suicide note and shared the same with all her family members on their cellphones in which she told the names of the culprit.
This note is all over the social media platforms. In thisletter, she told Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take immediate action so as toensure women’s safety, especially at home.
According to the reports, she blamed Pankaj and Anuj whoare her brothers-in-law for pushing her to kill herself.
The now-gone woman’s letter reads: “Ambuj and Pankaj, whoare connected with the ruling party, beat me up as I belong to a poor family.My mother died in my childhood and my father is an alcoholic. They threatenedto kill me if I narrated my plight to anyone.”
She further told that she was only 16-years-old when shegot married and she was tortured by her relatives, repeatedly since then.However, her hands were tied as she couldn’t tell anyone in the terror that ifshe does that then her husband would abandon her.
Police said that the initial inquiries itself revealedthat the woman died by suicide. The police added that there was some familydispute and her brothers-in-laws used to pass sarcastic comments.
Matters like such are always in the air but a call ofaction has never been taken to prevent such terrific things from happening.Hopefully, things like these end and people try taking the initiative toprevent as well as rely on someone to get off the same and not take the extremestep of suicide.