Hassan, Sep 1: In a shocking incident, a woman committed suicide after throwing all her five children into a tank at Madanahalli, near Javagal, in Arasikere taluk of Hassan district. However, two of her daughters survived the ordeal miraculously.
The deceased are Indramma (34), Rakshitha (4), Keshav (2) and Baby (1). Hemavathi (7) and Chaitra (6) survived as they managed to climb up the tank bund and reached the village to tell their father, Putta Bovi, what happened.
The bodies were recovered on Monday morning. Hemavati and Chaitra, speaking to media persons, said their mother and father had quarrelled on Sunday. “Mother said all of us should die as she couldn’t take care of us. She said she couldn’t tolerate father’s torture anymore,” Chaitra said.
Putta Bovi had injured his leg recently and could not work in the field, leaving the responsibility of running the family entirely on his wife. This was one of the factors that had prompted Indramma to take the extreme step, the police said. Post-mortem of the bodies was conducted on Monday. The Javagal police have registered a case.
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