Baba Ka Dhaba Owner Kanta Prasad Attempts Suicide, Admitted In Safdarjung Hospital

Baba ka Dhaba owner attempted suicide on Thursday night and is currently admitted to Safdarjung hospital.

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New Delhi: Baba Ka Dhaba Owner Kanta Prasad who is 80-yr-old has attempted suicide. He is now admitted to Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi.

According to reports, Kanta Parasad's wife informed that he took an overdose of sleeping pills as he was stressed about his financial situation. Kanta Prasad is in huge debt right now. His wife said that the rent of the restaurant they opened in New Delhi is Rs 1 lakh and they were earning around Rs 30,000 per month. Kanata Prasad was worried about paying his debts.

Kanta Prasad shot to fame last year after a YouTube video by Gaurav Wasan highlighting the miseries of the octagenarian couple during Covid lockdown went viral. 

Eighty-year-old Kanta Prasad and his wife Badaami Devi were back to the old Dhaba after their restaurant in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar wasn’t successful.

Following last year’s success, Prasad had invested Rs 5 lakh to open the new restaurant and hired three workers. After a brief period of success, the footfall decreased significantly and Prasad had to shut it down. He said, “The average monthly sales never crossed Rs 40,000. I had to bear all the losses. In hindsight, I feel we were wrongly advised to open a new restaurant. Of the total investment of Rs 5 lakh, we managed to recover only ₹36,000 from the sale of chairs, utensils, and cooking machines, after the restaurant shut down."

A few days ago, in an Instagram video that had gone viral, Prasad with folded hands had said that Gaurav Wasan was not a thief and that he never claimed that he was one. Prasad said that he was wrong to say malicious things about him, He added, “I made a mistake by saying ‘I didn’t call him but he approached us himself,’ I’d like to apologise."