Boy ends life while trying to enact television serial scene

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Press Trust of India Gwalior
Last Updated : Jan 07 2015 | 8:02 PM IST
A nine-year-old boy ended his life in Pinto Park area here after watching a suicide scene in a television serial, police said today.
Trying to enact the scene, the minor tied some cloth to the hook of the ceiling fan and jumped off the bed killing himself yesterday, Inspector Ajit Singh Chauhan said, quoting his father Pramod Mishra.
He was rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced him brought dead.
Chauhan said that his body was handed over to his family today morning after postmortem.
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First Published: Jan 07 2015 | 8:02 PM IST

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