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Man kills self after cow dies

Last Updated 16 September 2011, 17:57 IST

Grieving profusely as if some near and dear one had died, Dutta eventually committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree.

The unsavoury incident took place at Bihar’s Purnia district, some 350 km from the state capital. The Sadar police found the body of this man, a resident of Khusibagh, hanging from a tree at a nearby orchard. It was only after his shell-shocked wife Kanchan Rani Dutta spilled the beans that the police came to know about Lakhi Kant’s unflinching love for his cow and the reason behind the suicide.

Unwavering love

“My husband had an unwavering love for the animal. So when he heard about the death of the cow, he could not bear it and hanged himself from the tree at an adjoining orchard,” the distraught wife told the police.

Kanchan said her husband loved the cow more than any relative or a human being. Such was his intimacy with the animal that at times, he used to sleep in the cowshed.

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(Published 16 September 2011, 17:57 IST)

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