TN youth ends life as he failed to get job

COIMBATORE: The body of a 24-year-old BE graduate from Pallipatti in Dharmapuri district was found hanging from a tree at the seventh hills of Vellingiri in Coimbatore district on Monday evening.
Preliminary inquiries revealed P Mahadevan went missing on June 26. He sent a message to his family members stating that he would end his life to meet God. He left a suicide note too.
“He entered the reserve forest at Boluvampatti forest range and trekked for at least five hours to reach the seventh hill of Vellingiri to end his life,” said a police officer.
Mahadevan was staying with his elder brother, P Sivaperumal, who was working in a hotel in Karamadai, Coimbatore district. Mahadevan, who wanted to become a cop had appeared for the Tamil Nadu Uniform Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) exams for the post of grade -II police constables. However, he was not able to clear the written examination.
On June 26, afternoon, he told Sivaperumal that he would go to Coimbatore city and return soon. However, he did not return to Karamadai and his brother began searching for him in various places. Sivaperumal lodged a missing complaint with Karamadai police on July 7. Police sources said Mahadevan was depressed as he failed to find a job.
“Sivaperumal said received a message from his brother stating that he would meet Lord Shiva. His phone was switched off after that. Our field staff also did not see Mahadevan at anywhere,” said Boluvampatti forest range officer Arockiyasamy.
On Monday, the forest ranger office sent a team to the hills and they found a bag, a TNSURB hall ticket, and a suicide note in front of the Lord Shiva temple at the Vellingiri hills. His corpse was hanging on a tree in the same location. Due to heavy rain on Monday, the forest department field staff were not able to bring the dead the body to the plain.
On Tuesday, a team along with cops trekked the seven hills and brought back the dead body to the plain around 4pm. The decomposed body was sent to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) for postmortem.