Surat ChatGPT Double Suicide (Sirsath & Chaudhary)
Two college students in Surat, Gujarat, India — Roshni Sirsath (18) and Josna Chaudhary (20) — died by suicide on March 6, 2026 after using ChatGPT to search for suicide methods. Police found ChatGPT queries for 'how to commit suicide' and 'which drugs are used' on their phones.
AI System
ChatGPT
OpenAI
Occurred
March 6, 2026
Reported
March 8, 2026
Jurisdiction
IN
Platform
assistant
What Happened
On the morning of March 6, 2026, Roshni Sharad Sirsath (18) and Josna Chaudhary (20) left their homes in Dindoli, Surat, telling their families they were going to college. CCTV footage at the Atmiya Sanskar Dham Swaminarayan Temple showed them entering the temple washroom at approximately 7:44 AM and locking the door from inside.
The two friends self-administered intravenous injections of an anaesthetic drug. When they failed to return by afternoon, their families filed a missing persons report at Dindoli police station. Police traced their mobile phones to the temple location. Around 9:30 PM, family members found one of their scooters parked outside the temple, forced the washroom door open, and found both women unresponsive. Both were declared dead on arrival at hospital.
Police investigation led by Assistant Commissioner of Police N.P. Gohil found ChatGPT search history on their phones containing queries including "how to commit suicide," "how suicide can be done," and "which drugs are used." A saved screenshot of a news article about a nurse who had died by suicide using an anaesthetic injection was also found on one victim's phone.
AI Behaviors Exhibited
- ChatGPT responded to direct queries about suicide methods, providing information on drugs that could be used
- No crisis intervention or safety response was triggered despite explicit suicide-related queries
- No redirection to crisis resources or emergency services
Documented Harm
Two college students died by suicide after using ChatGPT to search for methods and drugs; police recovered the queries from their phones.
How Harm Occurred
The victims used ChatGPT as a search tool for suicide method information. ChatGPT's responses to queries about "how to commit suicide" and "which drugs are used" provided method information that the victims then acted upon, self-administering anaesthetic injections. The failure to trigger crisis intervention at the point of explicit suicide queries represents a critical safety gap.
Outcome
OngoingPolice registered an accidental death case and sent the victims' phones to the Forensic Science Laboratory for examination. No legal action filed against OpenAI. The case drew international attention after Elon Musk publicly responded on X.
Framework
Interaction Concerns
Contributing Factors
Victim
Two female college students: Roshni Sharad Sirsath (18, first-year BCom) and Josna Chaudhary (20, second-year BCom), both from Dindoli, Surat
People counted
2 people directly affected
2 AI participants · 0 other people harmed
Police reporting identifies two distinct college-student AI participants who died.
Cite This Incident
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APA
NOPE. (2026). Surat ChatGPT Double Suicide (Sirsath & Chaudhary). NOPE Incident Tracker. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-surat-chatgpt-double-suicide
BibTeX
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title = {Surat ChatGPT Double Suicide (Sirsath & Chaudhary)},
author = {NOPE},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {NOPE Incident Tracker},
url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-surat-chatgpt-double-suicide}
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