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‘Born in poverty, died in it too’: Ludhiana couple’s suicide note that leaves more questions than answers

The Indian Express·Divya Goyal·25 days ago
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Two of their children settled in Canada and one employed at a leading hospital in Ludhiana, yet a couple committed suicide and left behind a note pointing towards poverty and unhappiness. The suicide note purportedly written by the couple, points towards their poverty and unhappiness and requests their children to not be blamed, but leaves more questions than answers. Gurmeet Singh, 55, and his wife Narinder Kaur, also in her 50s, died by alleged suicide at their home in Pamal village of Ludhiana district, early on Wednesday. In the two-page note, they wrote that they were taking the extreme step “on their own will” as they were “unhappy with their lives” and the police shouldn’t harass their children. Ludhiana Rural Police’s DSP (Dakha) Karan Singh Sandhu said the note mentions Garibi ch jamme, garibi ch hi mar gaye (In poverty we were born and in poverty we died). “They asked their children to forgive them and apologised for not being able to support them any longer.…

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