BENGALURU: Two youths, including the son of a police official, died allegedly by suicide in different parts of the city since Sunday.
In the first incident, a 21-year-old commerce student was found hanging inside his residence in Electronics City, on Sunday afternoon. The deceased is N Prashant, elder son of assistant sub- inspector of police Nagaraj, attached with HSR Layout police station.
Prashant was a final-year BCom student at Vijaya College in Jayanagar 4th Block. Nagaraj and his family reside in Bettadasanapura Layout.
The incident came to light when Prashant's younger brother Pavan received a cash transfer message from the former on his mobile phone at around 2.45pm. Nagaraj had gone out for work while his wife and kids were at home. After lunch, Prashant locked himself up in the room around 1pm.
"Prashant had transferred a few thousand rupees from his account to Pavan's account. Wondering why Prashant transferred the cash, Pavan knocked on Prashant's bedroom door, but did not get any response. Little later, he peeped through the window and saw Prashant hanging from the ceiling," said police.
Police said they did not find a death note from the crime scene and are yet to ascertain why the student took the extreme step.
In the second incident, an office assistant with Goods and Service Tax (GST) head office in the building of the office of the commissioner of central excise, Queen's Road, fell to his death from the 6th floor on Monday morning.
Lakshman R, the deceased, had working at the GST office for one year. He was a resident of Rajajinagar.
"On Monday morning, he entered the office by 9am. After around 30 minutes, he went to the terrace on the sixth floor and jumped to death. He landed near the parking lot and died instantly," jurisdictional Commercial Street police said.
