Man from DK kills kids, commits suicide in Mumbai after wife elopes
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Feb 20: Sridhar Shetty (48), a native of Talapady, who was working as a supervisor in a hotel, committed suicide after poisoning his young kids before hanging himself late night on Tuesday February 18.
Shetty, who used to stay at Ganesh Complex in Nallasopara in the metro, had been facing a crisis in his life, after his wife eloped with a neighbor and started living with the latter in the same neighborhood.
Shetty, who allegedly killed his daughters, Shraddha Shetty (9) and Sai Daya Shetty (3), left behind a suicide note on two walls of the house wherein he said he would not have taken this drastic step if his wife had not deserted him for a youth from the neighborhood. The police, after those living in the locality sounded them on Wednesday morning, rushed to the spot and undertook investigation.
Sonali, wife of Sridhar Shetty, had been reportedly in an illicit relationship with a neighbor named Tejas Anoop Joshi. On Valentine’s Day, Sonali had deserted her husband and children, and started living with Joshi. When Sonali visited him on February 16, Shetty had a fight with her, after she is said to have informed him of her decision to stay with Joshi permanently.
Suffering from a sense of helplessness and depression over this development, Sridhar took this extreme step, after observing that Tejas and Sonali had left the locality on some work, it is gathered.