Hunsur: An incident of a youth committing suicide by hanging self has been reported from Kattemalalavadi village on Thursday night.

Rahul Malladi (21), son of Dalit Sangarsha Samiti Convenor Ningaraj Malladi and a resident of Kattemalalavadi village, is the one who has taken the extreme step as the girl he was in love with for the past two years, had allegedly rejected him.

As Rahul, who was pursuing 2nd year BA at D. Devaraja Urs PU College in the town, did not return home even after 10.30 pm, the family members went in search of him and found him hanging from a tree at their farmland.