19-year-old girl rescued after suicide attempt, dies in road accident while being taken to hospital
Kasaragod: In a tragic sequence of events, a 19-year-old medical student who had allegedly attempted suicide by hanging herself was rescued by her family but later died in a road accident while being rushed to the hospital. The incident took place near Bethurpara in Badiadka on Wednesday morning.
The deceased has been identified as Mahima (19), daughter of Babu of Tachaar Kundu, Bethurpara, and a final-year MBBS student.
According to police sources, Mahima reportedly attempted to hang herself inside her bedroom on Wednesday morning. Her brother Mahesh noticed the act in time, untied her, and along with their mother Vanaja, immediately placed her in a car to take her to a hospital in Kasaragod.
However, about one kilometre from their house, the car met with an accident near Bethurpara. Local residents rushed to help and took all three to the hospital, but Mahima succumbed to her injuries on the way. Mahesh and Vanaja sustained minor injuries and are out of danger.
Police said it is yet to be determined whether Mahima died from the injuries sustained in the accident or from the suicide attempt. The exact cause of death will be known only after the post-mortem report is received.
A case has been registered at the Badiadka Police Station, and an investigation is underway into both the attempted suicide and the accident
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Ex-minister Ramanath Rai hits out at BJP leader Ashoka for ‘irresponsible’ comments on KC Venugopal
Mangaluru: Congress leader and former minister B Ramanath Rai slammed BJP leader R Ashoka for calling AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal an agent of the party high command, and asked if the general secretary and other office-bearers in the BJP were commission agents too.
Rai, who addressed a press meet at the Congress office in the city on Friday, expressed fury over the recent comments of the BJP leader that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was presenting himself in a shameless manner in public life. Ashoka, who is also Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, had said that the Congress government had ‘broken every previous record on corruption-related controversies’.
“Ashoka has spoken with sheer ignorance and displays his lack of maturity, as he often does while facing the media. KC Venugopal has been working at organization of the party and it is unbecoming of Ashoka to criticize Venugopal as he did,” Rai told reporters.
“Being in a responsible position, how acceptable is it for Ashoka to pass disrespectful, random comments about another leader who also holds a responsible position? If KC Venugopal is indeed an agent of the party high command, what should we consider BJP leaders to be? Are they brokers?” he asked
Commenting on Ashoka’s allegations of corruption in the Congress government in Karnataka, Rai pointed out, “The KSRTC land was sold to private parties when he (Ashoka) was transport minister. We can find several such cases across the state, which need to be probed.”
The former minister, however, refused to comment on the incident that occurred at Mangaluru airport during CM Siddaramaiah’s visit to the city recently.
Former mayors Ashraf and Shashidhar Hegde, Congress activists Vishwas Kumar Das, Subhodaya Alva, Shabeer, Baby Kundar, Padmanabha, Nazeer Bajal and Prem were present.
