Chennai

A 25-year-old man who was in a live-in relationship with a transgender was found hanging in a tree in Sriperumbudur on Saturday. The deceased was Dinesh of Thiruvalur was in a relationship for the past four years with a Bakiya, a transgender in Sriperumbudur.

On Friday morning Dinesh was found hanging in a tree near Bakiya’s house and the Sriperumbudur police who visited the spot retrieved the body and sent it for post-mortem to the Sriperumbudur government hospital.

The police have registered a case. Since Bakiya is missing the police are investigating whether it was a suicide or a murder and also trying to trace Bakiya with the help of mobile phone signals.

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