Men in the state are more susceptible to committing suicide than women, statistics released by the state police reveal. As per the data made available by the director general of police’s office, the number of women who ended their lives was a little more than a third of the number of men who killed themselves in Maharashtra.

In 2012, 16,112 people killed themselves of whom 11,304 were men. The suicides were up by 165 in 2011, when of 15,947 suicides in the state, 10,887 were committed by men.