Mangalore: Filmy Style Affair - Youth Attempts Suicide for Lover's Sake
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS/VA)
Mangalore, Feb 25: Being in love is a sweet feeling but when the same love is under snag or hindrance it can lead to adverse consequences. One such incident of ‘troubled love affair’ has taken place in the city resulting in a problematic situation.
Unable to bear the opposition to marriage from the girl's family, the lover attempted suicide by consuming insecticides here on Thursday February 24.
Vinod Wickson D’Souza (25), who is battling for life, has been admitted to Father Muller Hospital, Kankanady. He is the son of Jossy D’Souza, and a resident of Padushedde Bondel. The girl has been identified as Sandhya Shaila Misquit (23), daughter of John Misquith, a resident of Padavinangady.
Sandhya was a lecturer at a private college in Kulshekar. The duo were in love since six years. Vinod, with the intention of settling in life had gone to Afghanistan for work. Before going, he wedded his lover Sandhya through registered marriage.
After a year in Afghanistan, the girl forced him to come back to Mangalore and accordingly he came back and was working in Sony Ericsson showroom for a period of 3 months.
However, the parents of the youth, after learning about their register marriage, wholeheartedly accepted their love. But the girl’s parents did not accept their relation.
Following some dramatic move, they called Vinod’s mother to their house, and told her that they would rather see their daughter jumping into a well than let her stay with Vinod.
Hurt by their attitude the boy’s parents consulted the priest of Bondel church who had agreed to bless the couple.
Amidst all this, the girl’s parents managed to brainwash her and forcibly made her tell Vinod that she does not love him anymore and would not stay with him.
Deeply disturbed by the sudden developments, Vinod took the extreme step of ending his life and attempted suicide. His parents rushed him to hospital. The doctors have said that his liver and intestine have been damaged. He has been kept in the ICU.
The girl's parents' greed for money has caused all these problems, alleged Vinod’s parents.
Incidentally, the girl and her parents are absconding and their house too is locked.