Car driver, youth commit suicide

Mysuru: In separate cases, a car driver and a 19-year-old youth committed suicide in city.

In the first case, a 32-year-old car driver allegedly committed suicide by hanging self at his residence in Gowrishankar Nagar in city yesterday morning. The deceased is Shankar. A native of Veera Wadeyara Hundi village in T. Narasipur taluk, Shankar was working for a doctor as a driver and was staying with his wife and child at Gowrishankar Nagar.

K.R. Police, who rushed to the spot, conducted mahazar, registered a case and shifted the body to MMC&RI mortuary, where post-mortem was conducted and the body was handed over to the deceased’s family members.

In the second case, a 19-year-old youth, said to be depressed in life, committed suicide by hanging self to a tree at Chamundi Hill on Wednesday. The deceased is Manikanta, a resident of Nanjangud. Public who saw the body hanging from a tree informed K.R. Police, who rushed to the spot, conducted mahazar besides registering a case.

Deceased Manikanta was working as a server at various marriage halls in city and the Police have suspected that he may have taken the extreme step due to depression in life.

This post was published on July 12, 2019 7:20 pm