India, May 3 -- A 30-year-old judge of the Karkardooma city court on Saturday allegedly died by suicide in the bathroom of his second-floor flat at Green Park Main in south Delhi, police officers and relatives of the judicial officer said.

Police and private security guards said they found the body hanging when they climbed 20 feet through a utility shaft and broke into the bathroom.

Although the police did not issue a statement on the incident, a relative of the deceased told reporters that the judge allegedly took his own life over domestic disputes with his wife. The judge's wife and father were in the flat when he allegedly locked himself inside the bathroom, the relative said.

A police officer, who did not wish to be named, said i...