PATNA, Feb. 3 -- Prominent Congress lawmaker Shakeel Ahmed Khan's son, who was a promising English poet, was found dead at the legislator's flat in state capital Patna on Monday morning, police said.

Police said the 17-year-old Ayan Khan was a student at a Patna school.

The teenager was last seen by his family at dinner on Sunday evening. He subsequently went to sleep in his room at night. "When he did not wake up in the morning, the family peeped into the room and found him hanging," a police officer said.

Police said the legislator was on a visit to Gujarat's Ahmedabad when the incident took place. He returned home later. As the MLA reached his house on Monday noon and saw the body of his alone son, he cried loudly after holding the ...