Chennai: Frustrated over his failure in love, a Chennai man slit his wrist, collected his blood in a bottle and asked his friends to gift it to his estranged girlfriend. The 36-year-old man died in hospital after refusing to take treatment.
The police identified the deceased as carpenter Kumaresa Pandian, 36, a resident of Nanganallur. They said the man was in a relationship with a 30-year-old woman who was his distant relative.
Sources alleged that the duo was in love for more than two years and recently when Kumaresa Pandian proposed to her she had apparently said 'no' and stopped being friendly with him. She blocked the accused on all social media platforms and started avoiding him.
On Tuesday evening Kumaresa had gone to meet his friend Muthu who lives in Pozhichalur in Pallavaram. The duo had a few drinks in an empty plot near Muthu' house. Quoting Muthu, police said that when they were drinking Kumaresa, who was very upset over his love failure, allegedly broke a liquor bottle and slit his left hand with it. Muthu, who was also in an inebriated condition, tried to stop the bleeding but in vain.
Before Muthu could alert the locals, Kumaresa started cutting deep into his wrist and is said to have filled an empty liquor bottle with his blood. Before falling unconscious, he handed over the full bottle of blood to his friend and asked him to give it to his estranged girlfriend as his breakup gift.
Kumaresa Pandian was rushed to the Chrompet government hospital where he refused treatment. At around 3.30 am on Wednesday morning he passed away, police said. The body was sent for post-mortem.
