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Puttur : Harassment by married man ; young woman ends life


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Puttur, Oct 29, 2020:    A young woman who was working as a receptionist at a private hospital  in Puttur has  ended her life by jumping into a lake near her grandmother’s house at Sampya on October 28, Wednesday afternoon.

 

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The deceased has been identified as Madhushree (26).   The mental torture meted out and the threat issued to her  by  her ex-lover who is now a married man, is said to be the reason for her suicide. It is learnt she had mentioned about this in her diary and on the basis of this her uncle has lodged a complaint at Vittal Police Station.

Madhushree who was the daughter of Sampaje resident Balakrishna Gowda  used  to stay at the hospital quarters and   visit her grandmother’s house at Sampya during holidays. Accordingly, she had come there on Wednesday and had later jumped into the lake after lunch.

It is learnt, she has written in her diary that Devicharan with whom she had an affair for five years, had married another woman this June  but still  wanted to be in touch with her and had also warned her of marrying anyone else. The diary also mentions that the accused had threatened to kill her if she married someone else.