Kanpur: A young man has taken his own life by hanging himself, claiming that he could hear voices in his ears and was being driven to suicide.

In Badshahi Naka, Raja Kashyap (22), a private employee who was suffering from mental stress, committed suicide by hanging. Piyush and Krishna, younger brothers of Raja, residents of Naughara, stated that he had been talking strangely and erratically for the past three months.