Three men end lives in Sunkadakatte

Three men ended their lives in Sunkadakatte area on Tuesday night in separate incidents.

While two men hanged themselves, one in his room and the other from a tree in a school ground, the third was found floating in the sump of his rented house.

The police suspect the last case to be a suicide and not an accident.

Mahadevaiah, 42, was found floating in the underground water tank in front of his rented house at Mutturaya Swamy Layout in Sunkadakatte. He was a car driver.

His wife Triveni and his two daughters had been to their native place Mayaganahalli near Channapatna. The house owner had called Triveni late on Tuesday evening on seeing the door of their house ajar and Mahadevaiah nowhere to be found.

Triveni, accustomed to the careless ways of her husband, a chronic alcoholic and asked the owner to lock the door and hand over the keys to her husband when he turned up in the evening.

But Mahadevaiah was nowhere to be found even on Wednesday morning and when the owner saw the lid of the underground water tank open, he grew suspicious and peeped into it to find Mahadevaiah’s body floating.

The tank is 10 feet deep and six feet wide. On being intimated, the police retrieved the body. Police sources say that the man was drunk on Tuesday when the incident occurred.
Though the incident spot suggests it to be an accident, the police suspect it to be a case of suicide. Kamakshipalya Police have registered a case of unnatural death.


Found hanging

In another incident, a 45-year-old man hanged himself from a tree in the Vinayaka School ground on Sunkadakatte Main Road on Tuesday night. The suicide came to light on Wednesday morning.

The dead, Shankar, was working as a manhole cleaner. Hailing from a village in Mandya, he had no home in Bangalore and was living on the footpaths of the area for the last two years. He too was said to be a chronic alcoholic. The reason for his death is not known. Kamashipalya Police have registered a case.

In the third incident in Sunkadakatte, a 23-year-old tailor was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his room at Kebbehalla. Amar hailed from Maski in Raichur district.

Police say that Amar has left a death note stating that only he was responsible for his death and he took the decision ‘unable to take the ways of the big bad world.’ He was also apparently an alcoholic and was drunk when he took the extreme step.

Pedestrian mowed down

A garment factory worker was mowed down by a speeding sports utility vehicle on Tuesday evening on Kodigepalya Ring Road.

The victim, Jitendra, 18, a resident of Gajanana Nagar, was on his way home from work when the accident occurred. He died on the spot sustaining grievous head injuries. Kamakshipalya traffic police have registered a case and the driver of the sports utility vehicle has been arrested.

Three arrested

Central Crime Branch officers arrested three men, who were running fake auto spare parts shop, in Kalasipalya on Tuesday. The sleuths raided India Automobiles, Car House and Sanjay Automobiles on JC Road and arrested them for stocking and selling duplicate spare parts to customers.

The arrested have been identified as Mannalal, 38, Khalid Ahmed, 26 and Binay Kumar, 34. Goods valued at Rs 9.19 lakh have been seized from the three shops.

Jobless man ends life

An unemployed man, who did not like his wife going to work, ended his life by hanging himself at his house in NGO quarters, Rajajinagar 6th Block on Wednesday.

Manjunath was unemployed for the past several months, but opposed his wife Meera Bai going out to work to support the family. Meera Bai has been working as a stenographer in the High Court. The couple had allegedly been quarrelling over the issue for long and Manjunath had a tiff with his wife on Wednesday morning too. But Meera Bai left for work.

On returning, she found her husband hanging from the ceiling fan. Magadi Road Police have registered a case.