Govt doctor kills self at city hotel

Govt doctor kills self at city hotel

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Chennai:26.11.2021

A government doctor ended his life on Thursday by administering himself a lethal injection, police said.

A Maheshwaran, 34, a native of Cuddalore, who was working as a general practitioner in Government Royapettah Hospital (GRH), was found dead at a star hotel on Dr Radhakrishnan Salai in Mylapore.

Maheshwaran left a suicide note stating that no one was responsible for his death, and that he was taking his own life due to stress, police said.

The doctor, a resident of Krishnapuram in Maduravoyal, had been working at the GRH for the past three years as a surgeon. On Wednesday, he booked a room in the hotel. While on the way to the hotel, he asked his driver, Karthik, to stop the car near a medical store on Royapettah High Road and bought some medicines.

As Maheshwaran didn't turn up for work on Thursday morning, his friend Vinod tried to contact him. His phone was switched off.

His friend went to the hotel and found the room locked from inside. The staff used a master key to open it and found Maheshwaran lying dead on a bed. There were five empty vials and an intravenous kit, police said, adding that a needle was found in his vein.

The body wa sent for postmortem. Maheshwaran is survived by his wife, Nandhini, a doctor, and a five-year-old daughter.