Mysore/Mysuru: A Bengaluru-based businessman has committed suicide by hanging self at a park in N.R. Mohalla in city. The deceased has been identified as Richardson (30), a native of Hunsur, who was conducting business in Bengaluru. He had come to Mysuru and was staying at his sister’s house in R.S. Naidu Nagar.

It is learnt that Richardson has taken loans from banks and private money lenders for business and following COVID-induced lockdown, his business suffered huge losses. Depressed over this, Richardson is said to have taken the extreme step.