A 43-year-old hardware shopkeeper allegedly committed suicide at his establishment in Badlapur area of Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said.
Some customers found the man, identified as Chogaram Chowdhari, hanging from a ceiling fan at the shop at around 11.30 am on Sunday and alerted police, an official from Badlapur police station said.
The police later sent the body for post-mortem and registered a case of accidental death, he said. A probe was on to ascertain the reason behind the extreme step, the official said.
Earlier, A 21-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide in Samta Nagar area of Kandivali. The duo was reportedly unhappy over their families not accepting their relationship, the police said.