Hyderabad, June 21 -- A 22-year-old IT employee from Coimbatore was found dead on the rooftop of his girlfriend's house in Kulasekaram, Kanniyakumari district of Tamil Nadu on Thursday, June 19.

The deceased, identified as Dhanush from Kaavuvilai, had been working at an IT firm while living with his parents in Coimbatore.

According to reports, Dhanush, who belonged to a Scheduled Caste (SC) community, had been in a long-term relationship with a Muslim woman since their school days in Kulasekaram. Despite pursuing higher education in different cities, Dhanush in Coimbatore and the woman in Kaliyakkavilai, the two stayed in contact and later reconnected when she joined a postgraduate program in Coimbatore.

The relationship reportedly cam...