Seeking to teach her a lesson for dumping him earlier, a 30-year-old man persuaded his girlfriend to commit suicide alongwith him. He then made her consume about 50 sleeping pills in a hotel room here Monday, but he himself had only a few. The woman died while he is admitted in a semi-conscious state at a local hospital, police said.

Manoj, a resident of Mandoli area of east Delhi, took Seema, 20, to Hotel Pelican here Monday afternoon.