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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Jan 22: The principal of a PU College in Kodagu district committed suicide in a lodge in the city on Thursday January 21.

Sudesh (45) consumed poison and ended his life in a lodge near KSRTC bus stand at Bijai here. He was the principal of Chennamma PU College at Madapura, Somwarpet.

Sudesh belonged to Talapady in the taluk. Since some years, he was functioning as the principal of Chennamma PU College near Somwarpet in Kodagu district. It is said that differences had cropped up between him and the college management since sometime, which was bothering him. Sudesh left Somwarpet on Wednesday night by bus, and rented a room in a lodge opposite KSRTC bus stand.

The staff of the lodge said they had seen him on Thursday morning. But since afternoon on Thursday, he was not sighted. When the lodge personnel got suspicious and checked, they found that Sudesh had committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance.

After they were informed about the suicide, Urwa poilce rushed to the spot and verified the crime scene. Postmortem was thereafter conducted at the mortuary of Wenlock Hospital here.

Sudesh's wife works as lecturer in a private industrial training institute at Krishnapura near Suratkal. The couple have a son and a daughter. A case of unnatural death was registered in Urwa police station.