AJMER: A woman committed suicide on Tuesday after her husband died of Covid at a hospital in Beawar block of the district. Police have sent the woman’s body for postmortem and are investigating the case. Devi Singh Meharat (40), a resident of Rajiyawas village in Beawar, was a security guard with an electricity company and was posted at a power house in Bhilwara district. He married Laxmi Devi (35) about 12 years ago and had two children — a 7-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter. His relative Bijandra Singh said that he had come to his village last week.
He fell ill and had fever and later developed problems in breathing. He went for the test in the health centre of his village and found that he was Covid-positive. On Monday evening, he went to Beawar and was admitted at the Government Amrit Kaur Hospital alone and on Tuesday, he died at the hospital.
Hospital management informed the relatives. When his wife Laxmi Devi suspected about something being amiss, then she was told her husband’s condition was serious and that they are taking him to a Jaipur hospital. But as soon as Laxmi Devi came to know that her husband had died, she went inside her house and consumed poison. Sarpanch Brajpal Singh said, “We rushed to save her and snatched the bottle of poison which is used as pesticide in crops and rushed her to the hospital.” But by the time she was taken to the hospital, the doctors declared her dead. Beawar police took statements of relatives and locals and sent her body for postmortem and registered a case.
Devi Singh’s parents were residing with him and he also had one brother who was living away. Now, the two children are left behind with their old grandparents in the village. The villagers mourned the tragedy and didn’t cook to observe a day of mourning. The sarpanch appealed to the villagers to maintain social distancing and wear masks in the village to prevent Covid from spreading.
He fell ill and had fever and later developed problems in breathing. He went for the test in the health centre of his village and found that he was Covid-positive. On Monday evening, he went to Beawar and was admitted at the Government Amrit Kaur Hospital alone and on Tuesday, he died at the hospital.
Hospital management informed the relatives. When his wife Laxmi Devi suspected about something being amiss, then she was told her husband’s condition was serious and that they are taking him to a Jaipur hospital. But as soon as Laxmi Devi came to know that her husband had died, she went inside her house and consumed poison. Sarpanch Brajpal Singh said, “We rushed to save her and snatched the bottle of poison which is used as pesticide in crops and rushed her to the hospital.” But by the time she was taken to the hospital, the doctors declared her dead. Beawar police took statements of relatives and locals and sent her body for postmortem and registered a case.
Devi Singh’s parents were residing with him and he also had one brother who was living away. Now, the two children are left behind with their old grandparents in the village. The villagers mourned the tragedy and didn’t cook to observe a day of mourning. The sarpanch appealed to the villagers to maintain social distancing and wear masks in the village to prevent Covid from spreading.
