It was meant to be a love affair with a girl whom he had not even met. But techie Sreerag S. committed suicide in the most bizzare manner by binding himself in duct tapes, drinking water laced with sleeping pills, pulling plastic carry bags over his head and lying dead waiting for death car. Though it looked like a murder, the police were sure that it was a case of suicide. “It was purely a one-sided love story. The 25-year-old techie had not even seen the girl even once and was communicating with her over mobile phone and through chats and emails. The girl has no role behind his death. Her alliance had been fixed with an engineer in the UK and Sreerag could not digest it and committed suicide,” police officers said.
“There are no external injuries on his body and no disturbance in the car that could have pointed to murder. But even his dress is not crumpled. It appears that Sreerag committed suicide,” said a senior police officer The Mahadevapura police traced his “girlfriend”, to whom he had proposed two months ago. The girl is an MBA graduate and works in a reputed software company in the city.
Just before committing suicide, Sreerag sent an emotional email to the girl at 2.27 am on Tuesday. He said that she could go ahead with her decision to marry the UK boy and fulfill her parents’ wishes. She would no longer hear from , and could read about him in the newspapers the next day. After which Sreerag allegedly drove his car to the park, drank water laced with sleeping pills, duct taped his own hands and legs, suffocated himself with a thick polythene carry bag and ended up dead.
The police recovered sleeping pills from the car and also a bottle that had water laced with the pills. They said preliminary investigation revealed that traces of sleeping pills were found in his system. The police also did not find any fingerprints other than Sreerag’s on the car, further strengthening the suicide theory. One of Sreerag’s childhood friends, Rohit B. Ashok, who studied along with him in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kozhikode, told the police that he was soft-spoken and hardly got angry. “He never told us any of his problems. Sometimes he would tell us about his mother’s ill-health,” added Rohit. Sreerag’s mother is in hospital.