A 32-year-old man under home quarantine for coronavirus allegedly committed suicide by hanging in Jajpur district on Sunday night.
Before his death, Suresh Sahoo of Deoda village had posted a video on the social media stating that some villagers abused and assaulted him and refused to pay him money which they had borrowed from him.
Sahoo had been home-quarantined after he returned from Chennai on March 18 to check spread of COVID-19. He was working in a hotel in Chennai.
Sahoo hanged himself from the ceiling fan in his house at Deoda under the Dharmasala police station. Police seized his body and sent it to the District Headquarters.
“After examining Suresh Sahoo’s video, we have detained ten villagers, whom the deceased named in the video,” said Dharmasala police station IIC Saroj Sahoo.