Puttur: Tossed into river by lover, lady survives by clinging on to tree


Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Sep 10: A lady who was thrown into River Kumaradhara in full flow from over the bridge, miraculously survived after being dragged by the river current for four kilometres. The girl, who saved herself by clinging on to a branch of a tree that had bent over the river, stayed put there all through the night. She was rescued by the police with help from locals on Tuesday morning.

The incident occurred near Pijakkala Paloli in Kadaba village in the taluk on Tuesday September 9 morning.

A boy named Anand was raised by the girl's family, which gave him shelter as he was an orphan and belonged to a family known to them. Anand fell in love with Padmavati, daughter of Chennu, and in course of time, put forth the proposal to marry her. As the parents of the girl did not have any reservations about this relationship, Anand came closer to the girl over a period of time, and developed physical relationship. This unethical relationship resulted in pregnancy of the girl, who is in the sixth month of pregnancy now.

Her parents were not aware of these developments, and the boy had convinced Padmavati to abort her pregnancy. He reportedly asked Padmavati, who was in her grandmother's place at Tannirpantha in Alike, to reach Uppinangady on Monday evening. He picked her up from there in a motor bike, telling her that he would arrange for her abortion at Kadaba hospital.

Anand took Padmavati to Subrahmanya temple from Uppinangady. From Subrahmanya, he took her to the bridge over River Kumaradhara at Pulikukku. He said he wanted to spend some time with her by loitering around the area, as there was time for the doctor to reach the hospital. He also told her that there was some problem with the motor bike. At around 7.30 pm, even as Padmavati stood on the bridge and was staring at the river, Anand suddenly came from behind, lifted her up and tossed her into River Kumaradhara, the girl said.

It is said that Padmavati, who was rolling bidis at her home on September 5, had left for Arasinamakki for undergoing training in tailoring. She did not come back by evening. When her friends were questioned, her parents came to know that she had told them that she would be visiting some friends. After they called up some relatives over phone thereafter, they came to know that Padmavati was at the house of her grandmother in Tannirpantha village, it is said.

Anand told Padmavati that he had borrowed the motor bike and Rs 5,000 from her relative named Somanath residing near Kokkada in Beltangady taluk. Padmavati said he also told her that he was required to spend Rs 20,000 for this abortion.

Padmavati, who knew swimming, was swept away by the river after being dropped into it, before she could catch hold of a tree branch and survive. Murali from Mooraje and his friends had visited the river at around 12 midnight that day to check whether the fishing line they had left behind in the river had succeeded in attracting any fish. They heard wails from the midst of the river. The youth, who had heard the rumours that a local youth named Dharmapal, who had drowned at the spot about a month back while fishing, had turned into a ghost and making his appearance felt by making strange sounds, fled to their homes.

In the morning, Murali reached the spot along with some of his friends from local Yuvaka Mandala, and reached the middle of river in a raft. He saw a girl shivering on the tree branch. By then, another person named Sundar Maistry came there with his raft. Murali and friends helped Padmavati to get down on the raft and brought her to the riverbank. The police, who were waiting there, admitted her into the government hospital at Kadaba. Later, she was taken to the government hospital in Puttur for advanced treatment.

Taluk panchayat president, Pulasya Rai, taluk panchayat former member, Radhakrishna Borkar, and others visited the lady and offered her moral support. They demanded for the immediate arrest of the accused.

It is gathered that the policemen have taken the accused into custody from Arasinamakki near here, although the police are yet to confirm this information.

  

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  • ali, mangalore

    Thu, Sep 11 2014

    As usual Jeevans comment is missing. We can handover him to u . whr r u man

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  • Rita, Germany

    Thu, Sep 11 2014

    @ Lydia Kadri,I understand your arguement and Feelings of a mother for the mother as Iam.But the reality is quite different.The man who seeked her friendship not as a loving Boy but out of sex ambitions.If he was really loving her would never dare to drain her in river.and if future also in case someone tries to get them marry it will never succeed.He may even dare to kill the child and do something to the Girl for forever to getrid of.such marraiges will never last and a Horror to the Girl.would you marry this Boy in her Position?hardly I think.better she live alone with the help of parents she will survive I feel Parents will help her.Should marry only because of living as a unmarried to live? Never.who knows she may get someone samaritan in future.My sympathys to this Girl.wish her good luck.

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  • Bulsam, Mangalore

    Thu, Sep 11 2014

    This boy is namak haram.
    He should be hanged.

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  • francis, Mangalore/Kuwait

    Thu, Sep 11 2014

    Brave Heart.

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  • Peter Lewis, Kalmady/k s a

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Thank God, you save her life.

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  • Gurudath, M'lore/Mumbai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    I am happy that this brave woman survived. At 6 months it is too late to abort. She might have to have the child. Person who threw her into the river must be hanged.

    I pity those young persons who ran away because of the 'ghost'!!

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  • ZAMEER, UDIPI

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    really feeling pity on this poor girl
    God save her it is incredible, I pray from God forget the past give soft heart to both get marry soon and welcome to new baby, god bless both AMEEN

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Bro, how can 'HE' be 'exclusive'?????

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  • Prakash, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    I guess each of us see this in a different light and that is OK. I find it hard to see how this solution could bring any short term or long term joy to either of the mother, the child or indeed the callous father.
    And really, a woman does not have to demean her child and herself by surrendering to such an arrangement. There are always other options and life goes on.

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  • Lydia Lobo, Kadri

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Prakash,

    Other options such as ???

    There are instances victims leveled differences with their rapists and decided to marry him (I will never support such a move) whereas this woman was in a mutual relationship.

    Whats wrong with letting them marry and live on ? The woman and her child will save from the disgrace of 'out of wedlock' branding ?

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  • Leslin, Surathkal

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Lydia Lobo,
    You do realise that he tried to "KILL" her along with their unborn child, RIGHT???? :O

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  • Flavian, Mangalore/Kuwait

    Wed, Sep 10 2014



    Hi Rudolf,

    Your question is beyond my/any ones imagination or understanding.
    Believing is your choice and to make you understand is in God's hands. We can trust in God but cannot raise questions. Can you ? Do it please.

    I surrender.

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  • Flavian, Mangalore/Kuwait

    Wed, Sep 10 2014



    She is indeed a brave woman (who overcame such an ordeal) and more importantly she was protected by the Almighty. When God is with us who can go against us. Even the Ghosts too must have felt the same.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Bro, why should 'God' be with 'somebody' and not with 'everybody'???

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  • Lydia Lobo, Kadri

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Prakash,

    What is more ? My ego or the future of the unborn child I am carrying ? I am a mother in reality and I know the bond starts at the first month - she carried the baby for six months !

    I would readily forgive the man, the father of my unborn child than bringing the baby in this cruel world that will anyway label it as a 'ba****d' which will eventually lead both of us to suicide !

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  • Clifford Fernandes, Toronto

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Lydia
    You say you are a mother and understand the situation correctly, hence I do not want to comment. You may be right. But, if I were in her position and given a chance to marry, I would rather "Spit on his grave."

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  • Lydia Lobo, Kadri

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    And, what would you have done with the baby for whose existence you are equally responsible as he is ?

    Disregarding the fact that he tried to kill her, lets deal with the issue existing prior to this(murder) attempt.

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  • Clifford Fernandes, Toronto

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Lydia
    I would rather beg, borrow or steal to bring up the child, than marry my own murderer. There are so many women like her. I would tell the child that the father is dead.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mangalore/Mumbai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Amazing!!! 'The youth, who had heard the rumours that a local youth named Dharmapal, who had drowned at the spot about a month back while fishing, had turned into a ghost and making his appearance felt by making strange sounds, fled to their homes............LOL!!!

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  • Lydia Lobo, Kadri

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    LOL.. indeed LOL !

    Despite the rumours about existence of a ghost, the woman, six months' pregnant, survived in the middle of a river holding on to branch of a tree.

    Should I say too brave of her or do ghosts at all exist ?

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  • masif, Manglore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    ಪರಿವಾರದ ಕಾರ್ಯಕರ್ತ ತಪ್ಪು ಮಾಡಿದಕ್ಕೆ SI ಹೊಡೆದರು ಅಂತ ಪ್ರತಿಬಟನೆ ಮಾಡಿದವರು ಈ !!! ಕಾಸ್ದಾಯೆ ವಿರುದ್ದ ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ಮಾಡಿಯಾರೆ ಒಂದು ನಟದ್ರೆಷ್ಟೇ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಮತ್ತು ಹೊಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಮಗುವನ್ನು ಕೊಲ್ಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ???

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  • Sudhakar, Kallianpur

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    ಮಸಿಫ್ ಅವರೇ, ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆಗೆ ಕೇವಲ ಸಂಘ ಪರಿವಾರದವರೇ ಬೇಕ? ನೀವು ಯಾಕೆ ಅನ್ಯಾಯದ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಹೋರಾಡಬಾರದು? ಕೇವಲ ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಎರಡು ಡೈಲಾಗ್ ಹೊಡೆಯುವುದಿಂದ ಅನ್ಯಾಯವಾದವರಿಗೆ ನ್ಯಾಯ ಸಿಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ, ನಿಮಗೆ ಅಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಕಾಳಜಿ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಹುಡುಗಿಗೆ ನ್ಯಾಯ ಕೊಡಿಸಿ.

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  • masif, Manglore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    ಸಂಘ ಪರಿವಾರ ಹಿಂದೂ ಧರ್ಮದ ರಕ್ಷಕ ಸಂಘಟನೆ ಅಂತ ಹೇಳಿ ಅನ್ಯ ಧರ್ಮಿಯರಿಂದ ಹಿಂದೂ ಧರ್ಮಕ್ಕೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ತೊಂದರೆ ಆದರು ಅದರ ವಿರುದ್ದ ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ಬಂದ್ ಎಲ್ಲವನ್ನು ಮಾಡುತಿರ ಆದರೆ ಹಿಂದೂ ಧರ್ಮೀಯ ಕೆಲವರಿಂದ ಹಿಂದೂ ಧರ್ಮೀಯರಿಗೆ ಸಹಿಸಲು ಸದ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲದಂತ ತೊಂದರೆ ಆದರು ಅದರ ವಿರುದ್ದ ಹೇಳಿಕೆನು ಕೊಡಲ್ಲ ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ಅಂತು ಮಾಡುದೆ ಇಲ್ಲ ಇದರ ಅರ್ಥ ವೇನು?

    ಸಂಘ ಪರಿವಾರ ಎನ್ನುವ ಸಂಘಟನೆ ಅನ್ಯ ಧರ್ಮಿಯರನ್ನು ವಿರೋಧಿಸಲು ಮಾತ್ರ ಇರುವುದು ಹಿಂದೂ ಧರ್ಮದ ರಕ್ಷಣೆಗಾಗಿ ಅಲ್ಲಾ ಅಂತ ಅಲ್ಲಾವೆ

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  • Sudhakar, Kallianpur

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    ತಿಳಿಯಿತು ಬಿಡಿ, ನೀವು ನೊಂದ ಹೆಣ್ಣುಮಗಳ ಮೇಲಿನ ಮಮತೆಗಾಗಿ ಅಲ್ಲ, ಧರ್ಮದ ಮೇಲಿನ ಅಂಧ ಶ್ರದ್ಧೆಗಾಗಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಷ ಕಾರಿದ್ದಿರಿ ಎಂದು. ಸಮಾಜಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಘ ಪರಿವಾರದವರಿಗಿಂತ ನಿಮ್ಮಂತ್ತಾ ಹುಸಿ ಜಾತ್ಯಾತೀತ ಮುಖವಾಡ ಹಾಕಿಕೊಂಡವರಿಂದ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ತೊಂದರೆ. ನಮ್ಮನು ನಾವು ನೋಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತೇವೆ, ಆದರೆ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನಿಮಗೆ ಕಾಳಜಿ ಬೇಡ ಬಿಡಿ.

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  • Koti, Kundapura

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Onji puggag gati dantinayak, dayeg bodithand. Itte ayene nadik laipuna portu battand. Antaha va nathada bele maltha maraya.

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  • Flavian, Mangalore/Kuwait

    Wed, Sep 10 2014



    “It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.”

    Anand should get right punishment for all his misdeeds toward the family who raised him from scratch.
    A dog which is unfaithful to the master should be wiped out.

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  • Sachidanand Shetty, Mundkur/Dubai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Sometime we wonder why few children born as orphan and even asking GOD can’t you set it right the plight of these orphans? But GOD only knows why they are orphan and some of them really needs to be orphan only. This boy among this category for sure and he got everything what his parents could not give him but he deserved to be orphan only

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  • Judith L, MUMBAI

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    This the mistake we do we always generalize and judge just becos one orphan has done so it should not be that other orphans donot need love and family. There are cases where an orphan child has looked after the parents in a more better way when their natural offspring have abandoned them.

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  • avani, mlore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    People(boys) need to understand girls' feelings. If they love you they do that wholeheartedly. They trust you completely. Please do not misuse the trust. Girls need to be cautious too. Do not trust boys 100%. Keep the last thing only after the marriage (unless you are prepared to face the consequence). Refuse each time your boy friend advances. I wish this lady speed recovery and strength to bear the pain.

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  • clvie, Kuwait

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    That boy is a disgrace. He betrayed all those who had reposed their trust in him.
    As for the girl, God saved her so that she could live to tell the tale. A good lesson for her anyway.

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  • Santan Mascarenhas, Kinnigoli/Mumbai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    This man is a parasite, who lived by the help and support of the family, is ungrateful and became treacherous. No doubt, he will get punishment according to law, but, given a chance, people may like him to be stoned to death at Gandhi Maidan.

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  • Hary, Kudla/Dubai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Yes, Toss him. Make him Orphan again.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Pure Lust ...

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  • Lydia Lobo, Kadri

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    I am sure Padmavati's parents do not want their daughter to be a unwed mother, nor the society wants another Praveen Kumar - never !

    It does not look like the woman has any animosity with the man, she may have willingly indulged in the relationship. Only thing is that they did not know how to avoid pregnancy and permissible age of a fetus allowed to abort.

    Forgive the man for what he did and get them married.

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  • Prakash, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Put yourself in the victims shoes. Assuming you found yourself in this situation would you want to spend the rest of your life with someone who tried to murder you??? Someone would have to be pretty insecure to settle for that!

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  • Muzaffar, Udupi

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    First of all these girls are easily falling to the trap such flirts who used girls for the lust.He attempt murder which was intended to kill the women who trust and love him.Whata paradox!!

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  • jeetendra hegde, mumbai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    when you are coming...? ,fulfill your wish.hhhhhhh

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  • riyaz, mangalore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Love jihad...

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  • Bryan, Bahrain

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    These people acted crazy when they fell in love, Either they're still naive, or stupid...

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  • vasu deva padiyar, falneer

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    they are not naive nor stupid. these things happen when you fall in love. you are blind when you fall in love. thank goodness you are married as per tradition - may be. or you are still crazy and still in mad love. come off it, and you will realize what ?

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  • CJV Mangalore, Bangalore/ Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Tie his legs and hands and then toss him into the river from the exact place. He should not get an opportunity to survive.

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  • PINTO, Doha/Qatar

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Abortion of 6 month old fetus? I cannot even imagine.May God have mercy on this generation.

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  • Judith vas, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Thank God that she was saved......
    Everything is a God's Plan

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  • mohammed , mangalore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Now I want to know how many groups are protesting.may be this love jihad,

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  • R.Fernandes, Dubai

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    Toss him in the same river to have better experience.

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  • Joyson, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 10 2014

    and before tossing him to the river tie his hands and legs tight to ensure he will not come out. no mercy should be shown towards him for the act he has done.

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