Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (MM/NR)

Beltangady, Aug 15: A married woman committed suicide after consuming poison along with her alleged paramour. She is understood to have even poisoned her eight year old son, at a rubber farm at Charmady village, on Tuesday August 14.

The incident came to light when other farm co-workers came to the farm. The deceased  have been identified as Shanta (35), her son Sunil (8) and Ramesh (28). They were working in the rubber farm of a certain Ananta Rao at the time of the incident. 

The reason for their suicide is not yet known, though  informed sources here suspect the affair between Shanta and Ramesh to be the main cause for the suicide. Ramesh, who was working as a rubber tapper here, was dismissed from work recently, the sources added. 

On the other hand, her two elder children Santosh and Satish who too were slyly induced to drink the poison given by their mother, stating that it was cough syrup for cough, survived the ordeal as they refused to drink it.

Sources also informed that, Shanta was married to Chidanand, resident of Puduvettu, 14 years ago. However, her husband soon deserted her and went and re-married another lady, which left her alone to take care of  her kids.