Daijiworld Media Network - Kaup (SP)
Kaup, Mar 4: In connection with the incident in which a Mumbai-based hotelier had jumped into River Netravati along with his five-year-old son, in which incident both of them had lost their lives, his wife has filed complaint of kidnap against her husband.
Ashwini Rai (38), wife of Gopalakrishna Rai from Pavooruguthu in Mangaluru taluk happens to be the complainant who has registered the case in Padubidri police station. Ashwini had married Gopalakrishna Rai about 12 years back, and the couple had a five-year-old son, Manish Rai. Ashwini lived with her husband and son at Thane.
Manish Rai (left) and Gopalakrishna Rai
Gopalakrishna Rai worked as manager of a finance firm in Mumbai and he also was involved with hotel business there. He often visited his native place. In order to participate in the family Nemotsava, Ashwini, along with her husband and son, had left Mumbai on February 13 and reached her husband's home the next day. On February 15, she went to her parental home with son and husband. After dinner that day, she went to watch the Nemotsava that was in progress at the agricultural field attached to her residence. The Nemotsava continued all through the night.
At 20 minutes past midnight that day, Gopalakrishna Rai left the programme with his son in his car without informing his wife. As her son and husband did not return for long, Ashwini became apprehensive. She called her husband on his cellphone at 4 am on February 16, but the call was not received. She made inquiries with relatives and family members, after which she filed missing complicit in in Konaje plolice station. The police, who investigated the complaint, found that Gopalakrishna's car was abandoned in the middle of Netravati bridge. Ashwini went there and found a mobile phone of her husband, his purse, mobile phone, charger, a nine-page letter and certain documents inside the car.
On February 28 evening, the decomposed bodies of a man and a small boy were found stuck in the gap at the break water located at Udyavar Padukere within Kaup police station limits. The bodies were kept in the mortuary of the government hospital at Udupi. After she was alerted about this recovery, Ashwini G Rai's elder brother, Shivashankar Shetty, and brother of Gopalkrishna, Harish Rai, went there and identified the bodies as those of Gopalakrishna Rai and Manish Rai on the basis of things found on the bodies.
On the basis of complaint made by Ashwini Rai, the Padubidri police have now registered a case under sections 363 and 302 of Indian Penal Code, duly charging Gopalakrishna Rai of kidnapping Ashwini's son, taking him in his car, leaving the car in the middle of Netravati bridge and jumping into the river, duly taking his son along, and thus causing the deaths of himself and his son.