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UP: Law student among 3 die by suicide in Lucknow

Lucknow, March 11 (UNI) Three people, including a law student, allegedly died by suicide in separate incidents reported from Gomtinagar, Hasanganj and Talkatora police station areas in Lucknow, police said today.
In the first incident, 24-year-old Suyash Singh, also known as Aditya, a third-year LLB student at a private college, allegedly hanged himself at his residence in Vineet Khand, Gomtinagar. He was the son of Advocate Jai Bahadur Singh. According to family members, Suyash had gone out of the house around 10 p.m. on Tuesday night and returned about 20 minutes later before going straight to his room.
On Wednesday morning, when his mother Meera Singh went to wake him up, she found him hanging from the ceiling. Police reached the spot and conducted a search of the room but did not find any suicide note. Gomtinagar police said the family has not made any allegations against anyone.
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