Mysore/Mysuru: A 24-year-old youth, said to be depressed in life, committed suicide by hanging self at his house in Vidyaranyapuram on Friday afternoon.

The deceased is Ningaraju, a native of Bilikere in Hunsur taluk, who was working at a chicken meat centre at Vidyaranyapuram in city and was residing at a house on Sewage Farm Road here.

Vidyaranyapuram Police, who inspected the house, conducted mahazar, shifted the body to MMC&RI mortuary for post-mortem besides registering a case.