The Sakalu Janula Samme demanding the separate statehood for Telangana reached the twenty third day, the State Transport Corporation protest has reached the seventeenth day. Earlier to this the agitation ignited by the regional politicians and fuelled by the students had seen a lot of deaths committed by the students in support of the agitation.

On Tuesday at Hyderabad the police said, in what appears to be yet another case of suicide for the cause of separate Telangana, a 45-year-old man today hanged himself here. The victim identified as K Chandramouli hanged from an electric pole near municipal office on Uppal Road. Locals found the body and alerted the police.

A photo copy of the ration card of Chandramouli, who worked in a private firm, was recovered from him. A 'Kanduva' (scarf) of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) was wrapped around his body and 'Jai Telangana' (popular slogan of statehood supporters) was found written on one side of the photo copy, they said.

As the body was brought down from the tower, pro-Telangana activists reached the spot. Police dispersed them and shifted the body to a nearby hospital for post-mortem and later handed it over to his family members, an officer said.

Further investigation was on. There had been sporadic reports of Telangana supporters committing suicide since last year in support of the statehood cause. Asked if the man had "committed suicide" in support of demand for Telangana state, the police officer said they were investigating the matter. "We only recovered photocopy of the ration card and 'Jai Telangana' written on other side of the paper," he said.