Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Sep 3: Mohan Kumari (25), working as teacher in a private school in the city, committed suicide on the night of Monday September 1, after hanging her 18-month-old child.

Kumari, wife of silversmith Murugan, was a spendthrift. Her husband Murugan said that she was trying to live beyond the family means and was frequently criticized by family members and relatives for this attitude. The couple was living in Srirampuram police station limits.

Murugan said, his wife did not open the door when he came back from work at about 10.30 pm on Monday September 1 and he then broke open the door with help from the landlord who resides downstairs. He found his wife and son hanging in the room.

It is thought that Mohan Kumari killed her child and later hung herself from the roof. In a four-page-long suicide note addressed to her mother and three brothers, she said that no one was responsible for her death. But people who know her closely feel that she was mentally bogged down by incessant criticism from family and relatives, on her spending habit.