Delhi dance teacher rescued after leaping into Yamuna over iPhone payment woes

Around 8.30 pm on Friday, police received a call that a man had jumped into the Yamuna near Bhola Ghat in the Kalindi Kunj area of southeast Delhi. The individual, identified as 30-year-old Deepak Kumar, works as a dance teacher and occasional gardener and lives with his wife and two children in Sanjay Colony, Okhla. He told officers that a drop in his income made it impossible to keep up with the monthly instalments on his iPhone, prompting the desperate plunge.

A patrol unit notified the flood department, and a rescue boat located and lifted Kumar from the water. After being questioned, he received counselling, his wife and brother-in-law were summoned to the station, and he was later sent home. The incident comes days after an 18-year-old in Maharashtra died after jumping from a hill when his parents refused to buy him an iPhone, highlighting growing financial pressures linked to consumer electronics.