CHENNAI: A 21-year-old man ended his life at a lodge in Periamet after setting his suicide note as his status on WhatsApp on Sunday.
The deceased, Prabu Karthik, was from Madurai district and had been working at a call centre in Vadapalani.
On Sunday, his friend in Puducherry was shocked to find his WhatsApp status message that he was going to end his life. He immediately alerted police control room, who passed on the message to Periamet police station.
Police rushed to the lodge, but found Prabu hanging. His body was retrieved and sent for post-mortem. Inquiries revealed that Prabu’s girlfriend had committed suicide a month ago, and he was dejected since then.
Police suspect that he could have ended life to overcome the loss and added that the suicide note indicated the same.
