On Saturday, 22-two-year-old Asif Iqbal Mondal hung himself from a mango tree in Kodanad, in Kerala’s Ernakulam district. He had run out of food and money several days before, and desperately wanted to return home. Not once but twice he had managed to book train tickets from Kerala to his hometown in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district – but both times, it had been cancelled. Asif Iqbal Mondal’s family has had to pay Rs 1.3 lakh to bring the body back to Murshidabad. They gave the driver Rs 1 lakh, Rs 30,000 is still due.
— source thewire.in | 13/May/2020