Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (KD/NR)
 
Udupi, Jan 20: The badly decomposed corpse of a married woman, who had allegedly committed suicide was traced and later exhumed by the city police here on Saturday, January 19.
 
According to police sources the exhumed body has been identified as that of one Kariyavva (22), the daughter of Channigappa and Girijamma residents of Hirevennala in Hiriyoor taluk. Kariyavva was given in matrimony four years ago to one Moorthi, the son of Kariyappa and Gangamma a resident of Chitradurga. The young couple even have a two year old child.
 
After their marriage Moorthi alongwith his wife had come to work on a pipe line construction site in Pangala. It is here that problems started brewing in their marriage, as Kariyavva became aware of her husband's extra marital relationship with another woman. Unable to bear the mental trauma, she is alleged to have commited suicide, sources added.

Further according to the same source, on finding the dead body of his wife Moorthi panicked and later is alleged to have buried the dead body near a tent in Pangla. And having done this cowardly act, he fled from the scene to his brother’s house in Puttur alongwith his lover Ellamma,  mother Gangamma and child.
 
However, the rumours of the suicide committed by Moorthi's wife spread all over the labourer camp. And the police too were alerted, who quickly took the matter in hand. Consequently, Moorthi and Ellamma too were arrested at Puttur and later their case transferred to Kapu police station. After due interogations and enquiries the police were able to trace the body of Kariyavva, which was subsequently exhumed and taken to Manipal hospital for postmortem and further action by the investigating authorities.