A 24-year-old man from Gujarat died by suicide after jumping from the 1,700-foot Konkankada cliff in Maharashtra last week, allegedly due to ongoing distress over a marital dispute.
Vishwrajsinh Mayursinh Gohil, a resident of Gujarat’s Bhavnagar who worked as a postal employee, recorded a 13-minute-long video before jumping to his death – in which he blamed his ex-wife and her family.
He also levelled several allegations against his former wife and her family, saying that daily disagreements were termed as ‘domestic violence’ by his wife and her family. “I had no idea then that such a storm was about to unfold. No such incident occurred in my home, yet the case alleges that I, my mother, and my brother assaulted and beat my wife. This is completely false and fabricated. “They claim that their gold is with us. The people in our society are witnesses to this. She left wearing our gold, but when we ask for our things back, there’s no hearing or pressure on them. It is misused based on mere verbal allegations without any evidence or basis. When this weapon falls into the hands of the girl and her family, it is blatantly misused. The police have filed a case of accidental death and have begun an investigation.
Vishwrajsinh Mayursinh Gohil, a resident of Gujarat’s Bhavnagar who worked as a postal employee, recorded a 13-minute-long video before jumping to his death – in which he blamed his ex-wife and her family. “Do you know that according to statistics, 90 to 92 per cent of cases involving Section 498A (domestic violence) are false and fabricated?
The police don’t even ask for any evidence or medical reports when registering an FIR,” he said. The truth, when her parents were forcibly dragging her away, she herself said she didn’t want to go. All the pressure is put solely on the boy’s family,” he said. Pre-litigation and settlement efforts are made, but they don’t yield full results,” he said, adding that today’s youth and Gen Z have become “fearful of marriage” because the “law seems completely one-sided and biased”.
