Unable to fund studies abroad, youth kills self

Ahmedabad: A 23-year-old man from Memnagar committed suicide by ostensibly strangling himself with a bedsheet in his bedroom on Wednesday, according to a complaint for accidental death registered at

Vastrapur

police station.According to Vastrapur police officials, Dhruvil Patel wanted to study in Canada for which he needed Rs 25 lakh. Dhruvil, a graduate, could arrange only Rs 19 lakh and was struggling to get the remaining Rs 6 lakh. This may have been why he committed suicide, said

S G Khambhla

, inspector of Vastrapur police.Another police officer said Dhruvil and his elder brother had been living with his mother,

Hetal Patel

, and stepfather Amit

Banerjee

, at Sterling Row Houses near Subhash Chowk in Memnagar for around ten years.On Wednesday night, Dhruvil worked on his computer and went to sleep early in the morning. When he did not emerge by Thursday afternoon,

Hetal

began knocking to wake him up.She then called Banerjee and told him that Dhruvil was not opening the door. Banerjee rushed home and broke into the room. They found Dhruvil seated on a chair with a bedsheet around his neck, with which he had apparently strangled himself to death, the accidental death complaint states.