Date:02/12/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/12/02/stories/2005120221860300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Man poisons daughter, ends life

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Following marital discord, a man allegedly poisoned his two-year-old daughter to death and later committed suicide at his house in Visvesvarapuram on Wednesday night.

The names of the dead were given as Ventakesh (47) and Mahima (2). Venkatesh, a resident of Diagonal Road, was planning to seek separation from his wife, the police said.

After allegedly giving poison to his daughter, Venkatesh too consumed poison and ended his life, the police said.

The Central police have registered a case.

In a similar case on Tuesday, Dinesh Shetty (37), a businessman, had allegedly smothered his one-year-old son, Yeshwanth, to death and later committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in Sanjaynagar police station limits.

According to the police, Shetty was in financial problems.

Woman ends life

A 35-year-old woman, who was harassed allegedly by her in-laws for more dowry, committed suicide by hanging herself at her house in Jayanagar police station limits on Wednesday night.

The police gave her name as Jayalakshmi.

She had married Sreenivasa Reddy of Jayanagar VI Block six years ago.

The police said Jayalakshmi, mother of two, had left a note saying that her mother-in-law, sister-in-law and brother-in-law tortured her.

On a complaint by her father that she was being tortured for more dowry, the Jayanagar police have registered a case.