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Thane: A 41-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Thane district died allegedly by suicide minutes after calling his wife and expressing his desire to hear her voice, an official said on Friday.
According to the police, the Dombivali resident and his wife had a minor fight on December 19 after which she left to stay with her sister in Diva.
Around 10 am the next day, the man called up his wife, who was on her way to work at Kurla in Mumbai, saying he wanted to hear her voice for two minutes, said the official.
After the call, the woman told the police that she received a photo of him, about to hang himself, on WhatsApp.
She requested her neighbour to check on her husband. The neighbour knocked on the door but there was no response. He then broke it open to find the man hanging from the ceiling, said the official.
The Vishnu Nagar police in Dombivili have registered a case of accidental death and are trying to ascertain the exact reason behind the suicide, the official added.