Table 1.
Details of the celebrity suicides during and before the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Case | Celebrity suicides prior to the COVID-19 pandemic |
Celebrity suicides during the COVID-19 pandemic |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and age of the victim | Location and date of suicide | Gender | Mode of alleged suicide and reason | Name and age of the victim | Location and date of suicide | Gender | Mode of alleged suicide and reason | |
| 1 | Kushal Punjabi(42 years) | Mumbai (December 26, 2019) | Male | Hanging at his home - Depression | Manmeet Grewal (32 years) | Mumbai (May 15, 2020) | Male | Hanging at his home – Depression |
| 2 | Nitin Kapoor (58 years) | Mumbai (March 14, 2017) | Male | Jumping from a building – Bipolar disorder | Preksha Mehta (25 years) | Indore, Madhya Pradesh (May 25, 2020) | Female | Hanging at her home- Depression |
| 3 | Pratusha Banerjee(24 years) | Mumbai (April 1, 2016) | Female | Hanging at her residence - Depression | Disha Salian (28 years) | Mumbai (June 8, 2020) | Female | Jumping from a building- Depression |
| 4 | Jiah Khan(25 years) | Mumbai(June 3, 2013) | Female | Hanging at her residence - Depression | Sushant Singh Rajput(34 years) | Mumbai(June 14, 2020) | Male | Hanging at her home- Depression |
| 5 | Kuljeet Randhawa(30 years) | Mumbai(February 8, 2006) | Female | Hanging at her residence - Depression | Siya Kakkar(16 years) | New Delhi(June 25, 2020) | Female | Hanging at her home - Depression |
| 6 | Sai Prashanth(30 years) | Chennai(March 13, 2016) | Male | Drinking poison mixed with drinks - Loneliness & Depression | Sandhya Chauhan(18 years) | New Delhi(July 5, 2020) | Female | Hanging at her home - Depression |
| 7 | Balamurali Mohan(54 years) | Chennai(June 25, 2014) | Male | Hanging at his residence - Depression | Susheel Gowda(32 years) | Karnataka(July 7, 2020) | Male | Hanging at his friends’ residence– Depression |
| 8 | Shikha Joshi (40 years) | Mumbai (May 16, 2015) | Female | Slitting her throat - Reason - Not reported | ' | |||
| 9 | Ranganath(66 years) | Hyderabad (December 19, 2015) | Male | Hanging at his residence – Depression | ||||
| 10 | Uday Kiran (33 years) | Hyderabad January 5, 2014 | Male | Hanging at his residence - Depression | ||||
| 11 | Vijay Sai (44 years) | Hyderabad December 11, 2017 | Male | Hanging at his residence - Family problems | ||||
| 12 | Sreenath(44 years) | Kerala April 23, 2010 | Male | Cutting his wrist at a hotel room - Personal reasons | ||||
| 13 | Santhosh Jogi (44 years) | KeralaApril 13, 2010 | Male | Hanging at his friends’ residence - Family problems | ||||
| 14 | Kunal Singh (30 years) | MumbaiFebruary 7, 2008 | Male | Hanging at his residence - Depression | ||||
| 15 | Mayoori(22 years) | ChennaiJune 16, 2005 | Female | Hanging at her residence- Depression | ||||
| 16 | Monal Naval(21 years) | ChennaiApril 14, 2002 | Female | Hanging at her residence - Family problems | ||||