45-year-old Basavalinga Swami was found hanging from the grills of the window of his room in his mutt on Monday. The cops have discovered a suicide note left behind by the seer of Kanchigal Bandemutt in Ramananagar district about 60 kms from north-east of Bengaluru. The cops say that the suicide note mentioned about the seer being harassed with defamation by a few persons to remove him from his position.