Man commits suicide in GH ward

CHENNAI: A 47-year-old patient committed suicide by hanging himself inside the bathroom in the emergency ward at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital on Monday.Police sources told Express that V Dass, a resident of First Street in Thilagar Nagar in Kaladipet, Thiruvottiyur, was admitted in the emergency award ‘201’ at GGH after he was found lying on the railway track on Sunday.  On Monday, around 5.15 pm, Dass asked his wife Shanthi, who works in a paint company, to fetch him a cup of tea.On returning, she did not find her husband on the bed and searched for him everywhere in vain. Finally, on breaking open the bathroom door, she found that he had hanged himself with a hospital bed sheet from an overhead pipe.Police said that Dass was an epilepsy patient and suffering from mental depression, which could have been the motive behind the extreme step taken by him.Hunt on for Missing BoyPolice have launched a search for a 14-year-old boy, who reportedly went missing at Aminjikarai. Police said Ebimon, a class 8 student at a school at Kolathur, was residing with his grandmother Leelamma at Gandhinagar in Triplicane.Ebimon along with his grandmother had attended a service at church in Aminjikarai on April 8. Leelamma left for home at 9 am, but Ebimon decided to return later. However, when he did not come home, Leelamma began a search for him. On April 12 she lodged a complaint at the Aminjikarai police station.Tailor Drowns in LakeA 27-year-old tailor, Logidoss of Perumbur, drowned in Puzhal lake while swimming along with his friends on Sunday. Police said he suffocated before drowning even though his friends attempted to rescue him in vain. Fire personnel recovered his body on Monday.Cash Looted from CarRobbers allegedly made away with Rs 5 lakh from a car that was parked on the roadside, after breaking the glass of one of the windows, at Avadi on Monday. Police said the cash was kept under one of the seats in the car by real estate agent Ravi of Avadi, after he had visited the registar’s office near Avadi market. Police said that according to their informants, there is a gang that watches and follows people leaving the registrar’s office with cash.