The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Woman commits suicide

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Woman commits suicide

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She set herself ablaze; she returned home after a quarrel with husband

A HOUSE RUINED: A Fire Force personnel inspects the house in which 20-year-old Rupa (right) allegedly set herself ablaze at Sanjevanagar near Bangalore on Thursday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

Bangalore: A young married woman poured kerosene and set herself on fire and the ensuing blaze ignited the LPG cylinder which exploded, killing her on the spot here on Thursday.

The Vijayanagar police, who registered a case, told The Hindu that Rupa, 22, had married Prashanth, a bakery owner and resident of Banasawadi, five years ago. She had a three-year-old daughter, Namrata. The police said that Rupa, after quarrelling with her husband, came to her parents' house in Sanjeevanagar depressed.

It took two fire tenders to douse the fire. Nobody else was injured as Rupa was alone at home when she decided to end her life.

Meanwhile, Krishna Murthy, Rupa's father, blamed his son-in-law saying the couple often fought because Prashanth used to pressure Rupa to get more dowry. However, the police were not able to confirm this. In another case, Venkatesh hanged himself from a tree with a dupatta on Wednesday night on Kalingarao Road in the Silver Jubilee Park police station limits. The police said the incident came to light when the security guard at the Income Tax office saw his body hanging from the tree.

Teenager dead

Fascination for pigeons led to a young man's death on Thursday. Rizwan (19) had climbed up the roof of his house to play with the pigeons he was rearing on Wednesday. He slipped and fell on a pile of stones. He sustained a head injury and was taken to Victoria Hospital first and then to NIMHANS where he died. A case has been filed by the J.J. Nagar police.

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