20-yr-old found dead in Bengaluru lodge room, female friend left earlier

Bengaluru: A 20-year-old man from Dakshina Kannada was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a lodge in southern Bengaluru on Friday. 

P Thakshith, from Puttur, had checked into a lodge in Maruthi Nagar along with a female friend from Virajpet, Kodagu, on October 9, and stayed there for eight days. 

On the evening of October 17, the woman checked out alone while Thakshith was found dead a few hours later. Lodge staff found him in a sleeping posture with a blanket covering him and called the Madiwala police. 

Police investigations revealed that the couple had informed the lodge staff that they had come for college-related work and paid the room rent daily. Both studied at a college in Mangaluru. 

"They ordered food from the outside and complained of food poisoning. They had bought medicines from a medical store and recovered," a police officer investigating the case said. 

"It appears to be natural death but we're awaiting the post-mortem report to ascertain the exact cause," the officer added.