Coimbatore: Woman ends life fearing family’s opposition to her affair

COIMBATORE: A 22-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging at a rental room at Cheran Maa Nagar on Thursday, fearing her parents won’t accept her relationship with a man, whom she befriended while playing the online game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) two years ago.
The Peelamedu police identified the deceased as A Nandhini, 22, a native of Thenur in Madurai district.She was a BCom graduate.
A police officer said, “She used to play PUBG on her mobile phone. She befriended another player, an 18-year-old youth from Cheran Maa Nagar in the city, two years ago. The two exchanged their mobile numbers and fell in love a year ago.”
Meanwhile, she got a job with a private mobile operator at Gandhipuram and met her lover, who is now 20 years old, last month. “He took a rental room for her at Cheran Maa Nagar. When the youth’s father came to know about their affair, he asked her to wait for two months, when his son would turn 21, for the marriage and promised her to talk to her parents about their wedding,” the officer said.
The youth’s father subsequently contacted her parents and elder brother, who asked Nandhini to come home after two months to discuss her marriage. “However, it seems she thought that the two families were trying to separate them,” the officer said.
On Thursday afternoon, Nandhini phoned up her elder brother’s wife and told her in tears that the family had separated her from the youth. Later, she switched off the phone and committed suicide by hanging at the rental room.
On seeing her hanging in her room, her neighbours informed Peelamedu police sub-inspector Gnanasekar, who sent the dead body to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital for postmortem.
Based on her elder brother Muthukrishnan’s complaint, the Peelamedu police have registered a case under Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The body was handed over to her family members after the autopsy on Friday afternoon. Further investigation is on.