The founder and head of city-based Shankar IAS Academy who helped scores of civil services aspirants to crack the exam allegedly committed suicide here. D Shankaran, 45, reportedly ended his life by hanging in his house late on Thursday night. “He seems to have had family issues,” an official said.
Shankaran, survived by wife and two daughters, had set up the academy after his own failure to qualify in the exam and made it a successful venture helping many to enter the civil services.
DMK chief MK Stalin said Shankaran had trained over a 1,000 aspirants to crack the civil services exam and proved that an IAS coaching centre could be successfully run in Chennai too.
Former state Director General of Police R Nataraj said: “Though he could not succeed in civil services exam, he did not lose heart and started guiding other aspirants.”
“Shankaran mentored his sister who qualified and it was his first victory and the rest of his meteoric rise is history,” he said. — PTI
