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Family of four commits suicide

Madikeri: Four members belonging to a family committed suicide after jumping into a tank at Kakkabe, near Napoklu town, in Madikeri taluk of Kodagu district on Sunday night, the police said here on Monday.

The victims were identified as K. Nitya Bheemaiah (45), his wife Vincy (37), daughter Mridula (13) and son Raj Devaiah (two-and-a-half years), Deputy Superintendent of Police, Madikeri, J.D. Prakash, told The Hindu here.

According to one version, Mr. Bheemaiah had a huge debt on him, borrowed from banks to develop his 10-acre property.

Mr. Bheemaiah’s sisters had allegedly staked claim for the father’s property and this upset Mr. Bheemaiah and Ms. Vincy. They had celebrated Mridula’s birthday at a relative’s house near Kakkabe on Sunday evening and had gone back to their home. Mridula was studying in a school in Bangalore. The postmortem report revealed that all the four had consumed sleeping tablets before jumping into the tank.

Mr. Bheemaiah had written suicide notes and posted one copy to the Napoklu police. Three more copies were found in the house in Monday morning.

Based on the letter, the residents of the village had informed the police and rushed to the tank nearby only to find Mr. Bheemaiah’s body floating in the water.

The police were informed by the residents. Divers recovered all the four bodies. Mr. Prakash said that a case of unnatural death had been registered.

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