AIIMS resident doctor commits suicide after quarrel with wife in Delhi

An All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) doctor allegedly committed suicide after a petty fight with his wife. The 34-year-old was identified as Manish Sharma a senior resident doctor at the premier institute and was preparing for MD and was a native of Nagaur in Rajasthan. He allegedly jumped off from the fourth floor of his apartment in south Delhi's Hauz Khas, the police said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Hauz Khas police station was informed about the incident at 11.29 pm about the incident in Gautam Nagar, police said. On reaching the spot, police learnt that the victim was taken to the AIIMS Trauma Centre by his friends and neighbours, a senior police officer said.

As per the enquiry conducted on the spot, Sharma had got married to Tripti Chaudhary, who was a senior resident doctor at PGI Chandigarh, six months ago, the officer said. On the day of the incident, the victim picked up a quarrel with his wife over some trivial issue following which he took some pills and alcohol, the officer added. He then started fighting with his wife Tripti, who was somehow rescued by the neighbours. However, when Sharma was alone in his apartment, he jumped off from the balcony, the police said.

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Sharma was declared brought dead on arrival at the AIIMS Trauma Centre and his body was handed over to his family after a post-mortem examination, the police said. They also said that the exact reason for the quarrel between the husband and the wife was yet to be ascertained and further investigation is underway.

In January, a 26-year-old doctor of AIIMS had committed suicide at a hotel in Kochi in Kerala. Dr Mamta Rai worked in the dermatology department and belonged to Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. She had left a suicide note mentioning that she was battling depression and was unable to cope with it, the police said. She reportedly said in her suicide note that she is a patient of depression. She is fed up of fighting it. She is quitting. No one is responsible for this. “Sorry Papa,” she penned in the note.

Rai had come to Kochi for attending a conference on dermatology on January 18, 2018. She was found hanging from the ceiling fan in the hotel room. She was brought down from the ceiling fan by the hotel staff and taken to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead on arrival.