Kerala man found dead in Bengaluru apartment; police book women flatmates for ‘abetment to suicide’

The family of a 39-year-old technician from Kerala, who was found dead in an apartment in Bengaluru on November 7, have accused two of his women flatmates of abetment of suicide following his death.

According to the Bengaluru police, the man, who hailed from Thiruvananthapuram and was working at a medical transcription firm for over four years, was found dead in the bathroom of the apartment he shared with two of his women friends.

The police said one of his flatmates found his body in the bathroom of the second-floor apartment at around 4.30 am on November 7.

In his police complaint, the man’s younger brother said he received a phone call from one of the flatmates at 5 am on November 7, saying his brother had died by suicide in the bathroom. He rushed to Bengaluru from Kerala, and identified his brother’s body at the St John’s Hospital mortuary later that day.