MUMBAI: Frustration at not being able to live together drove a married couple to attempt suicide by setting themselves ablaze at an office complex in Malad (W) on Wednesday.
Rahul Tanwar, who worked as an engineer with a subsidiary company of Bharti Airtel Ltd, and his wife, Kiran Rathod, were employed in different cities and could meet up only once in several months.
Both wanted the other person to shift. But economic constraints made that difficult. The couple was rushed to the Bhagwati hospital with 60% burns. Later, family members moved them to the Masina hospital at Byculla, which has a special burns ward.
Rahul hails from Jalgaon while Kiran is a Buldhana native. They had an arranged marriage over a year ago. Kiran comes from a family of teachers and completed her diploma in education in Mumbai, before taking up a teaching job in a Buldhana school. Rahul kept moving to different cities looking for better work opportunities — from Buldhana to Nashik, then to Pune, before coming to Mumbai.
He rented a room at the Nagri Nivara complex in Dindoshi. Kiran would visit him whenever her school was shut during vacations, but the two never ended up staying together for more than 10-15 days.
On Tuesday, the couple met after six months. Kiran boarded the Gitanjali Express from Buldhana and reached Mumbai at night. She then took a local train and got off at Goregaon station, where her husband was waiting to pick her up on his Hero Honda bike at 10 pm.
Instead of heading home, the two went to Mindspace complex where Rahul's office is located at Interface. They parked the bike in slot number 7 of the common parking lot and sat on the vehicle chatting.
"We believe the two had some kind of altercation over shifting to the place where the other person lived. "Kiran told her family that for sometime, Rahul wasn't calling her up and she wasn't aware of what was happening in his life at Mumbai," her uncle, Gajanan Rathod, told TOI.
Around 11.30 pm, an incensed Rahul took out petrol from his bike. The two then sprinkled petrol on each other, before Rahul struck a match. As engulfed him, Kiran leapt forward and embraced him. The two sustained burns on their arms, chest, face and legs.
Rahul Tanwar, who worked as an engineer with a subsidiary company of Bharti Airtel Ltd, and his wife, Kiran Rathod, were employed in different cities and could meet up only once in several months.
Both wanted the other person to shift. But economic constraints made that difficult. The couple was rushed to the Bhagwati hospital with 60% burns. Later, family members moved them to the Masina hospital at Byculla, which has a special burns ward.
Rahul hails from Jalgaon while Kiran is a Buldhana native. They had an arranged marriage over a year ago. Kiran comes from a family of teachers and completed her diploma in education in Mumbai, before taking up a teaching job in a Buldhana school. Rahul kept moving to different cities looking for better work opportunities — from Buldhana to Nashik, then to Pune, before coming to Mumbai.
He rented a room at the Nagri Nivara complex in Dindoshi. Kiran would visit him whenever her school was shut during vacations, but the two never ended up staying together for more than 10-15 days.
On Tuesday, the couple met after six months. Kiran boarded the Gitanjali Express from Buldhana and reached Mumbai at night. She then took a local train and got off at Goregaon station, where her husband was waiting to pick her up on his Hero Honda bike at 10 pm.
Instead of heading home, the two went to Mindspace complex where Rahul's office is located at Interface. They parked the bike in slot number 7 of the common parking lot and sat on the vehicle chatting.
"We believe the two had some kind of altercation over shifting to the place where the other person lived. "Kiran told her family that for sometime, Rahul wasn't calling her up and she wasn't aware of what was happening in his life at Mumbai," her uncle, Gajanan Rathod, told TOI.
Around 11.30 pm, an incensed Rahul took out petrol from his bike. The two then sprinkled petrol on each other, before Rahul struck a match. As engulfed him, Kiran leapt forward and embraced him. The two sustained burns on their arms, chest, face and legs.
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