Coimbatore: A 27-year-old jilted lover killed himself by slitting his throat at Kamatchipuram in the city on Saturday morning.
Police identified the deceased as R Karthikeyan, a native of Ramanathapuram district. He was residing in a rental house at Kamatchipuram with his parents.
While Karthikeyan was employed with a private firm at Othakkalmandapam, a police officer said, he had not reported for work for the past one month.
Preliminary inquiries revealed Karthikeyan was in depression after the girl with whom he was in love with ended the affair because of differences of opinion. “He met the girl while pursuing BE computer science in a private college in the city six years ago. She left him four months ago. He was dispersed since then and used to take sleeping pills,” the officer said.
On Friday night, he said, Karthikeyan fought with his father and elder brother and assaulted them. “So, his father went to a relative’s house. Karthikeyan also left the house and he was found dead in a pool of blood on road around 5.45am on Saturday.”
It was a neighbour who spotted the body first. “Karthikeyan had inflicted injuries to his throat with a razor before slitting it with a knife,” the officer said.
When alerted, the Singanallur police sent the dead body to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital for postmortem. The body was handed over to the family members after the autopsy later in the day.
The Singanallur police have registered a case and further investigation is on.