Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Dec 6: Smita Rai (25), daughter of former Dakshina Kannada Zilla Parishad member, N K Narayan Rai, resident of Pai Compound, Kadaba in the taluk, committed suicide in Dubai on Sunday December 4. Her marriage was conducted recently.

Smita is survived by husband, parents, and two brothers. Family sources said that Smita's body is expected to reach Madikeri, which happens to be the native place of her mother, on Tuesday, and that funeral will be conducted there.

Smita married Navin from Parpunja near the town on October 16 this year. The function had been organized in a marriage hall in Darbe here. Within a few days after her marriage, Smita had left for Dubai with her husband.

It is learnt that Navin had left his apartment on Sunday afternoon on some work. On his return at about 7 pm, he found that Smita, who was alone at home, had committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan. In a suicide note left behind, Smita explained that she had resorted to this extreme step, as she was overtaken by guilt at not being able to marry a boy she had loved, when she was studying in a college in Ujire in Beltangady taluk.