A restaurateur was found dead on Thursday after allegedly facing mental harassment by his business partners, on whose Virar property he was running Star Planet, a restaurant. The deceased, Karunakar Puthran, 48, hanged himself at the restaurant and left a suicide note blaming the property owners, with whom he was in a profit-sharing partnership. 

Puthran was found hanging inside the restaurant around 9 am by its woman cleaner, who raised an alarm. The restaurant’s manager, Devdas Madival, reached the spot around 10 am.