Annadurai's adopted son ends life

Chennai: C.N.A. Parimalam, the adopted son of DMK founder member and former Tamil Nadu chief minister C.N. Annadurai, committed suicide early yesterday by jumping into a well, police said.

Parimalam, 67, was a physician by profession and was reportedly depressed, family sources said.

He had retired from government service and his wife had died in 2006. He leaves behind two sons and a daughter.

Parimalam suffered from cardiac problems and was admitted in a private hospital, where he had stayed nearly 10 days before returning home on Monday evening.

He could have been concerned about the medical expenses, the family sources said. Parimalam had reportedly told his son Malarvannan that he did not want to be a burden on anyone.

Around 2am, when the son went to Parimalam's room to give him medicine, he did not see the father.

The family launched a search and found him floating in the well in the premises of the house in the upmarket Nungambakkam area, police said.

The body was sent to the government hospital at Royapettah for post-mortem.