Police said they were investigating the death from all possible angles, including suicide.
A city-based private women's hostel owner, wanted for allegedly seeking sexual favours from
the inmates in return for waiver of room charges, was found dead in a well in Tirunelveli district today, police said.
The body of the owner was found inside a well in Alankulam in that district, they said.
The warden of the hostel had taken five women inmates to a hotel under the pretext of celebrating the owner's birthday on July 22 and allegedly asked them to extend sexual favours to him for waiver of the room charges.
After the parents of the women lodged a complaint, a case was registered against both of them on July 24 for allegedly threatening to kill and under the Prevention of Atrocities on Women Act, 2016.
The two had been on the run ever since then and the body of the owner was found today.
Police said they were investigating the death from all possible angles, including suicide.