Bantwal :A young auto rickshaw driver committed suicide by hanging in a tree nearby Billampadav Halemane bus stand in Alike village on Thursday October 3 night.
The deceased has been identified as twenty-five-year-old Srinath, son of Manjunath, a resident of Pervai village.
Srinath believed to have committed suicide by the help of a spring-wire fastened to a mayflower tree located on the private road besides Billampadav bus stand on Kuddupadav – Pervai Road on Thursday night.
The other auto rickshaws who were passing their way saw an auto rickshaw parked with the headlight on besides the road and someone lying nearby. They informed their friends who in turn informed the deceased Srinath family. His brother Prashanth arrived at the spot and managed to clear Srinath from the noose and taken to Vittal Government Hospital in state run ambulance service 108. The doctors pronounced Srinath dead at the hospital.
Srinath was found playing carom with his friends at Pervai at about 8.30pm on Thursday. The locals suspect that he committed suicide owing to circumstances that were known to him only.
Vittal police registered a case on the basis of complaint lodged by Srinaths brother Prashant in this regard.