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Footballer Dayanand, sister-in-law end life

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Footballer Dayanand and his sister-in-law, Reetu (24), committed suicide by consuming pesticide in an apartment in the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. employees' quarters on Monday evening.

According to the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), M.C. Narayanagowda, Dayanand, who was an HAL officer, had gone to Shimoga three days ago along with his wife, Rashmi, a physical education teacher in Cambridge School, and Reetu, a degree student. They returned on Monday morning.

Around 9 a.m., Rashmi and Dayanand went to work. Dayanand returned home around 2.30 p.m. with a bottle of pesticide, and he and Reetu consumed it around 5 p.m. A neighbour who found them unconscious took them to the HAL hospital, where they were declared dead.

The Jeevanbima Nagar police have booked a case. The bodies, which are kept in the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, will be handed over to relatives after autopsy on Tuesday morning, Mr. Narayanagowda added.

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