Girl shuts Instagram account over love proposal, youth ends life

One such is the case of a 23-yr-old ATM cash filling worker of Salem who ended his life on Monday after the girl with whom he developed friendship on Instagram deleted her account refusing to reveal her personal details.

C Anandakumar (23), a resident of Asthampatti village in Salem was working as an employee of loading currencies into ATM kiosks. Two months back, Anandakumar came to Kailash Nagar near Kattur in Tiruchy to his uncle Senthil Kumar’s house. During his stay, Section 144 was clamped as part of lockdown measures to tackle COVID-19 spread.

When Anand was in his uncle’s house in Tiruchy, he started an Instagram account and came in contact with a girl. Both chatted for long hours.

Though they had not spoken or seen each other, Anandakumar developed a liking for the girl after seeing her profile picture and reportedly proposed to her.

Shocked by the sudden proposal of Anandakumar, the girl, in an unexpected move, deleted her account. It came as a rude shock the Salem youth and he became depressed. His family members were unaware of the affair. But, they repeatedly asked him for the reason behind his sadness and also tried to comfort Anandkumar.

However, on Monday late evening, Anandakumar hung himself at his uncle’s house. Acting on a complaint from his uncle Manikandan, Tiruverumbur police rushed to the spot, retrieved Anandkumar’s body and sent it to the Thuvakudi GH. Meanwhile, the information is doing rounds that the Instagram ID was a fake one. Further investigations are on.