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Three members of an HIV-positive family committed suicide by leaning in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday. The dead included a 50-year-old father and two daughters, aged 20 and 12.
Ramnath Singh, a resident of Mahua Tola in the village of Barwalia Bujurg in Kushinagar District, and two daughters were infected with HIV a few years ago. His wife, also infected with HIV, died last year
The entire village knew that the family was HIV positive. They were socially boycotted several times and the villagers did not allow anyone to visit them. The wedding of Ramnath's eldest daughter was broken three months after the groom's family learned that she was HIV-positive.
The younger daughter of 12 years also underwent similar treatment in her school and she was forced to leave school. after the students objected to his presence. After social ostracism, the HIV-positive family had sunk into deep depression for a month.
"They were on treatment but their condition was deteriorating day by day. After the breakup of her daughter's marriage, my brother and his family had almost stopped leaving the house and were in a deep depression, "said Ram Naresh Singh, his older brother, living next door.
There was no activity until noon in the house, Ram Naresh went to peek out the window only to find that three were hanging from the ceiling. Police Superintendent Kushinagar AK Pandey said that a case was registered and that the bodies were sent for autopsy to determine the cause of death and to confirm if they were HIV-positive.
"We will conduct investigations to check if the family has ever been harbaded or boycotted in the village. Police will also speak to the school leadership for the reasons of the school's exit from the youngest daughter, "badured the SSP.
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