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Forced engagement instigated Bengaluru techie to commit suicide?

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November 25, 2017

Bengaluru, Nov 25: Software engineer Geethanjali U(27), who fell to her death from the terrace of a 10-storey building in Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli in Bengaluru on Wednesday, had searched online on ways to commit suicide, Marathahalli police said.

Geethanjali had got engaged at her Goa home on Tuesday (a day before her suicide), which was also her birthday. The police now suspect that her engagement to a man against her wish might have been the trigger.

Police retrieved pictures of her engagement from her mobile phone, which was sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for testing and also found text messages from her friends congratulating her on the "double bonus" for getting engaged on her birthday on November 21. Geethanjali's response had been muted, as she replied "yes, yes."

Parents of Geethanjali kept silent over her engagement, telling the police that they had no idea why the techie took the extreme step and had no one to suspect.

Police investigation revealed that Geethanjali was unhappy over her engagement, but complied with her parent's wishes to keep them happy. She gave no sign of her unhappiness and her parents assumed she was happy with the engagement.

After arriving in Bengaluru on Wednesday, Geethanjali went to the terrace of the tech park housing her office and tried convincing her mother and aunt on a phone call about cancelling the engagement. She then jumped off the building. Geethanjali's mother and aunt did not tell the police about her last phone call.

Police are planning to interrogate Geethanjali's colleagues on Friday to find out if she was in a relationship with someone else and if that was the reason for her unhappiness over her engagement.

Marathahalli police sub-inspector Nagaraju said a case had been registered under unnatural death (Section 174 of the IPC), but in view of the new facts, the case has been upgraded to suspicious death under IPC Section 174.

An engineer with ADVA Optical Networking in Cessna Business Park near Kadubeesanahalli, Geethanjali died after falling from the office building on Wednesday.

The post-mortem was performed at Vydehi Hospital, after which it was handed over to the family at 12.30 pm. Geethanjali was cremated at Kudlu.

Also Read: Young woman techie jumps to death from 10th floor in Bengaluru

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April 28,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 28: Trucks carrying fish loads from Kerala will not be allowed to enter Dakshina Kannada district as the authorities are not being able to control the rush in markets, state Fisheries Minister and district-in-charge Kota Srinivas Poojary said Monday.

The deputy commissioner has been instructed to restrict the entry of fish transport vehicles from outside the district forthwith, in view of the difficulty in maintaining social distancing at the markets identified in the district, the minister told reporters here.

The coastal district has to take more precautionary measures to fight COVID-19 as the number of positive cases have risen in the last couple of days, he said.

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May 4,2020

Kalaburagi, May 4: Migrant workers stranded in different parts of Karnataka arrived in buses at Central Bus Stand in Kalaburagi on Monday morning and are being sent to their home towns.

The Kalaburagi City Corporation has made the requisite arrangements for labourers and their thermal screening is also being done.

"Food packets and water bottles are being provided to all. Buses carrying migrant workers started arriving from 5 am. We are expecting around 70 buses. This process will continue for the next 3 days," Rahul Pandve, Kalaburagi Commissioner City Corporation, told news agency.

"We have made arrangements for registration. And all arriving at the site are undergoing thermal screening," he said.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had on Sunday allowed labourers to travel to their hometowns in the state on KSRTC buses free of charge for three days starting on Sunday.

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