Pune: Tragic Suicide of Teacher Couple; Couple Jumped Into the Dimbhe Canal Frustrating Family Disputes

Pune:

A married teacher couple from Warulwadi village of Junnar Taluka ended their lives by jumping into the Dimbhe left bank canal due to family disputes between them. They both committed suicide on the first day of the new year.

The name of the teacher couple who committed suicide is Chirag Chandrashekhar Shelke (age 28) and his wife, Professor Pallavi Shelke (age 24). After this incident, the entire Warulwadi village is mourning over the tragic death of this couple. Meanwhile, Narayangaon police have succeeded in finding the body of this couple with the help of local people.

Police informed that the deceased, Chirag Shelke, had been working as a mathematics teacher in the English medium school in Narayangaon for the past three years. Apart from being a favourite teacher of students, Shelke was also a playwright and poet. His fellow teachers informed that the play written by Chirag Shelke has won the first prize in the school district competition. Shelke was a very sensitive and disciplined teacher.

Shelke’s wife, Professor Pallavi, was also a teacher by profession at the reputed school in Pune. Last year, Pallavi and Chirag got married, and they were living in the Abhang Wasti area of Warulwadi village in Junnar Taluka along with Chirag’s mother.

On Wednesday, January 1, around 5:30 p.m., Chirag and Pallavi had come to the bridge over the Dimbhe left bank canal on the Warulwadi-Thakarwadi road on their two-wheeler and parked their two-wheeler on the bridge. Local villagers informed that while being there, an argument escalated between them over a family dispute, and both of them jumped into the canal. However, due to the flow of water in the canal, they disappeared within a few moments.

After that, Warulwadi village Sarpanch Rajendra Meher informed Police Patil Sushant Bhujbal and Assistant Police Inspector Mahadev Shelar of Narayangaon Police Station about the incident. Accordingly, police rushed to the spot and started a search operation of their bodies. Chirag Shelke’s body was found on Wednesday night. However, due to darkness, Pallavi could not be found.

Meanwhile, Prashant Kaduskar, the executive engineer of the Kukadi Irrigation Division, reduced the water in the Dimbhe left bank canal. After that, yesterday, on January 2, at around 9 a.m., Prof. Pallavi’s body was taken out of the canal. After that, the autopsy of both bodies was done at the rural hospital in the presence of Dr. Deepti Kalambkar.