A youth committed suicide by hanging himself using his girlfriend’s scarf in a guesthouse at Patia under the InfoCity police station on Thursday.
The deceased was identified as Amit Kumar Jena. His body was recovered from a room of the guest house in the afternoon. The police recovered the body and detained the deceased’s girlfriend for questioning. But the girl claimed that he did not know why Amit took the extreme step.
Sources said Amit hanged himself from the ceiling fan in the room in the afternoon. Manager of the guest house Kishore Sahoo said he was not on duty when the couple had checked into the guest house. After getting information he rushed to the spot.
Sahoo further said that the couple had booked a room and checked into the hotel earlier too. The identification proofs furnished by the couple suggest that they tied the nuptial knot in a court, he added.
The police initiated a probe into the matter.