Suicide bid by teen depositor

May 13: A 16-year-old student from Jalpaiguri district who worked as a guard and had invested with the Saradha Group consumed pesticide yesterday evening. Sahanur Islam is now in the ITU of Jalpaiguri district hospital. “For the past one-and-a-half years, Sahanur has been working as a security guard at a construction site near Lataguri station,” said the Class X student’s father Muhammad Ali, a daily labourer. “On his holidays, he often worked as a labourer during the day. But he never gave any money to the family and invested almost all his earnings in the Saradha Group. I have seen the certificates and other documents. As far as I know he had invested around Rs 70,000,” said Ali, a resident of Mahakalpara in Jalpaiguri. When Sahanur came to know that the company had gone bust, he started looking for his agent. “He could not contact him. Last evening, my son set all the documents and certificates on fire and attempted to commit suicide by consuming pesticide,” Ali said. Commission Administrative sources said that 1,479 applications by agents and depositors were submitted to the Siliguri office of the Shyamal Sen commission today.