Muzaffarnagar, Oct 5 (PTI) A man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his house in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said Friday.

The deceased, Abhishek Kumar, a resident of Subhashnagar locality, was an employee of the district irrigation department, they said.

His family claimed that he committed suicide Thursday over a family dispute, police said.

The body was sent for post mortem and the matter is being investigated, they said.

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