Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)
Puttur, Nov 29: The woman who gave tense moments for the families of her husband, parents, and a youth from the same village, after demanding company of a youth in preference to her husband, is in the news again. This time around, she sent the family and some divers in a tizzy by calling the family of her husband to inform them that she had decided to jump into River Netravati.
This married lady from Sarve village near the town is in love with a local young man. As her desire to marry that youth was rejected outright by her family, she had left home on Monday. On Tuesday, she called her family to tell them that she was near River Netravati at Uppinangady and that she had decided to consume poison there. The family, which was under compulsion to keep this information a secret in view of likely damage it would have caused to their reputation, directly went to Uppinangady at about 5.30 pm and began to search for the lady in both River Netravati and River Kumaradhara. Local youngsters too joined them in the operation later.
The people then called the cellphone of the woman. As she did not pick the phone, help was sought from the police. Police sub-inspector of the station, Nandakumar, extended help to the family and found out that the cellphone was at Madapura in Somwarpet taluk, Kodagu district.
The family members,who were through hell since evening, searching for the body of the missing woman time and again, and the locals who had put in hard work to help the family, were left cursing themselves for not seeking police help at the beginning of the operation itself.
It is beleived that the woman went to Kodagu with the youth she was in love.