COIMBATORE: A 19-year-old graduate student of a
private college
committed suicide by hanging in his house at
Kanuvai
on the outskirts of the city on Friday after his father refused to provide him Rs 2 lakh for buying a
sports bike
.
The
Vadavalli
police identified the deceased as K Mukileswaran, of Ajantha Nagar at Kanuvai near Somaiyampalayam. He was a first-year graduate student.
An investigation officer said Mukileswaran had been pestering his father G Krishnamoorthy, 45, a carpenter, and elder sister, who works with a private company, demanding Rs 2 lakh to buy the bike for the past two months. “They explained to him about the family situation and asked him to give up his plans for the bike for now. But Mukileswaran was not ready to give up his dream.”
When the youth’s father and sister returned from work on Friday, the officer said, the house was found locked and there wasn’t any response from inside to their repeated knock on the main door. “With the help of neighbours, they broke open the door and found him hanging from a ceiling.”
The family members alerted the Vadavalli police, who retrieved the body and sent that to the
Coimbatore Medical College
and Hospital for postmortem. The body was handed over to the family members after the autopsy on Saturday afternoon.
Vadavalli police sub-inspector Ramachandran has registered a case under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and further investigation is on.
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