A 50-year-old man ended his life by hanging after killing his daughter by administering high dose of sleeping pills in their house at Tarnaka, the police said on Saturday.
In a note purportedly written by Abul Kalam Siddiqui, it was stated that he killed her since she was suffering for long due to mental health problems. Siddiqui earlier worked with private employers and went to Dubai for work. He was living with his family at Nagarjuna Colony in Tarnaka. After being diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, he stopped working. His daughter Nusrat Siddiqui, 19, was in B.Tech. course in KMIT college in Narayanaguda. “Since seventh standard, she had some mental problems but was treated by doctors,” Osmania University Inspector V. Ashok Reddy. Of late, the teenager was mentally ill. She was taken to a corporate hospital where doctors referred her to the Institute of Mental Health in Erragadda. Later, she was brought home. The teenager’s mother Johra Jabeen was worried as she didn’t wake up till late on Saturday morning. “When she told about this to her husband, the latter said he gave her sleeping pills so that she was relieved of the mental stress,” the Inspector said. In the afternoon, Siddiqui sent her out to get some medicines for him. When she returned, the main door was bolted from inside. She called in her relatives who broke open the door only to see Siddiqui hanging to the ceiling fan in the room where his daughter was lying dead.
