Humiliated by workplace boyfriend, Infosys employee ends life

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July 1, 2019

Bengaluru, Jul 1: A 24-year-old woman working for a reputed IT firm has committed suicide at her paying guest accommodation (PG) in Konappana Agrahara, South Bengaluru after fight with her male colleague. 

The deceased has been identified as Rakshitha T, who was working at Infosys. She was the second daughter of Timmaiah Shetty, a native of Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. Rakshitha had completed her BSc and joined Infosys two years ago. 

Police said Rakshitha was in a relationship with her colleague Karthik Srinidhi. He used to harass and humiliate her which forced her to take the extreme step.

A preliminary investigation revealed that when Srinidhi started seeing other girls, Rakshitha confronted him.

An enraged Srinidhi started abusing and humiliating her and even told her to leave him alone and be dead. Depressed, Rakshitha disconnected the call after telling Srinidhi that she is going to end her life.

Srinidhi said that both were friends and spoke on the phone every day. On June 25, both spoke at around 10 pm.

However, around 11.20 pm, Rakshitha called him and told him that she is going to end her life and disconnected the call. 

Srinidhi rushed to Rakshitha’s PG and alerted the staff. They went to her room and found Rakshitha hanging from the ceiling. She was rushed to the St John’s Hospital but was declared brought dead.

Based on a complaint by Timmaiah Shetty, the Electronics City police booked Srinidhi charging him under abetment to suicide.

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June 7,2020

Mumbai, June 7: As the Maharashtra government has given green signal for outdoor physical activities under 'Mission Begin Again' despite amidst growing cases of covid-19,  thousands of Mumbaikars flocked to Marine Drive for 'morning walks' on Sunday.

People were seen wearing masks as a precaution from the novel coronavirus pandemic, however, from the viral photo, it seems that no social distancing norms were followed what so ever.

"Better call it marne waalon ka drive," said a Twitter user. "Still people have no sense of responsibility," said another Twitter user.

After nearly 80 days of lockdown, Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra revved back to life on Friday. 

Most markets, market areas, commercial and trading areas - barring malls or market complexes - reopened for business even as Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray reiterated that "people should tread cautiously while beginning a 'new life' from today".

Meanwhile, of the total 82,968 cases in Maharashtra, Mumbai now accounts for 47,354 cases and 1,577 deaths.

On Saturday, Maharashtra reported 120 deaths, including 58 in Mumbai, due to COVID-19, taking the overall number of fatalities to 2,969, state Health department said.

The recovery rate in the state stands at 45.06 per cent and the fatality rate at 3.57 per cent, an official statement said.

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June 13,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 12: Karnataka on Saturday reported 209 discharges, as the state confirmed 308 new cases of COVID-19 and three related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 6,824 and the death toll to 81.

With the 14 new cases, the total number of covid cases in Udupi district alone today reached 1005. Dakshina Kannada today reported 30 cases and the tally mounted to 263. 

Today highest cases were reported from Kalaburgi (67), followed by Yadgir (52), Bidar (42) and Bengaluru Urban (31). More details to follow.

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February 4,2020

Mangalore, Feb 4: Final chance to present evidence and record eyewitness statements with the Deputy Commissioner of Udupi G Jagadeesh regarding the December 19 violence will be held on February 6 between 1100 and 1300 hrs.

Eyewitness and evidence presenters can depose at the Assistant’s Commissioner’s Court Hall in the Mini Vidhan Soudha in the city.

The Deputy Commissioner said that no evidence would be accepted after this last round of public hearing.

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