'Teach her a lesson', Guj husband urges in video before ending life
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 05.01.2025
Rajkot : A 39-year-old man from Gujarat's Botad district died by suicide at his residence last month. Moments before ending his life, he recorded a video accusing his wife of mental harassment and urging his family to 'teach her a lesson'. Suresh Sathadiya's wife Jaya, in her mid-30s, was booked under BNS Section 108 for abetting his suicide and detained on Saturday. The couple was married for 17 years and had four children — two daughters aged 15 and 10, and two sons aged six and four. Suresh was found hanging at his home in Botad's Zamrala village on Dec 30. On Friday, his father filed a police complaint against Jaya after discovering the video on his son's cell phone. In the video — not sent to anyone or shared on social media — a visibly distraught Suresh weepingly accused his wife of mental torture, saying: “Teach her a lesson that she will remember for her entire life. She was neither mine nor her children's; she cheated me and forced me to die.” As per the FIR, Jaya frequently argued with her husband and often left to stay at her parents' house. On the day Suresh died, he went to his in-laws' residence to persuade Jaya to return home. When she refused, he came back home and recorded the video before ending his life.
