Cab driver ended life by hanging himself at his house

Yogesh K Porwar & Avanth Kumar Kankaria

A 36-year-old cab driver ended his life by hanging at his house in Chandra Layout on Monday.

The deceased has been identified as Manjunath, a native of Turuvekere in Tumakuru district,living with his wife Lakshmi.

Senior police officer told reporters,the incident came to light on Monday morning when Lakshmi went to wake him up for breakfast and found his body hanging and alerted the police.

The police shifted the body to Victoria hospital for the postmortem. No suicide note has been found at the spot and Lakshmi, who runs a provision store said in her complaint that he had taken money from some of his relatives .

He was unable to repay and upset over this he has taken extreme steps and the couple were also fighting over the financial issues as he was borrowing money from her relatives too.

We are further investigating to ascertain the reason behind the extreme step and also the cause of death ,the police officer added.

(Those in distress or those having suicidal tendencies can call Arogya Sahayavani Ph.: 104 for help.)