Wife Doesn't Come Home For Karwa Chauth, Man Dies By Suicide In UP: Cops

The man's wife had been at her maternal home for the past two months.

Upset over his wife not returning from her maternal home on Karwa Chauth, a 24-year-old man allegedly died by suicide by hanging himself here, police said on Thursday.

Pramod Kumar, a resident of Guga village in the Bhuta police station area here, allegedly hanged himself in a room of his house on Wednesday night, they said. Police said that the man's body has been sent for post-mortem.

Pramod's wife Preeti had gone to her maternal home two months ago, his grandfather Baburam said.