Cops stop Borivli youth from killing self after he announces it on FB

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The cyber cell police and the MHB police got together and managed to save a 22-year-old Borivli resident from committing suicide on Wednesday night.

According to the police, the youth lost his mother in the year 2013 and his father in the year 2017. After the death of his mother his father had remarried but died couple of months after.

The police said the student had been living with his stepmother until the lockdown, she then moved out taking everything from the house including the furniture.
He tried to do odd jobs to survive.

They said she had been harassing him to give up the apartment where he was staying alone.

He had written a post about committing suicide on his Facebook page on Wednesday and tagged a friend. He wrote that he had no choice but to end his life and that he was going to do it the same day. The friend who stays at Shivaji Park immediately alerted the Shivaji Park police.

The Shivaji Park police informed the Cyber Crime Cell at BKC which alerted the MHB police.

"We reached the youth's residence and saved him. We counseled him for a few hours. Later the cyber cell officials took him with them for more counselling," said Senior Inspector Popat Yele of MHB police station.