Mysuru: Four persons committed suicide in separate incidents in Mysuru since the last 24 hours. While two incidents were reported from the heart of the city, two were reported from Hunsur near Periyapatna. Mounting loans, health reasons and domestic disputes are said to be the reasons for suicides.

In the first case, a Mysuru-based 43-year-old Chartered Accountant P. Prashanth hung himself from a ceiling fan at his house at Siddalingeshwara Layout in Bogadi yesterday. The Police said that Prashanth had borrowed huge loans from banks to construct a house in Ananda Nagar in city.

He had also lost money in share market which pushed him to take the extreme step. The Police also added that Prashanth had health problems that could have driven him to take the extreme step.

Yesterday, Prashanth, after dropping his wife and daughter to a tailoring institute and school, returned home and ended his life. The incident came to light when Prashanth’s wife returned home after finishing her classes.

Rowdy-sheeter ends life: In the second incident, Girish Kumar alias Chetty Giri ended his life by hanging himself to a ceiling fan at his house at Basaveshwara Road in Agrahara. The Police said that Girish, a rowdy-sheeter at K.R. Police Station, was booked in five cases including a group clash.  However, the reason for Girish taking the extreme step is yet to be ascertained.

Housewife kills child, hangs self

In a heart-rending incident reported from Sangashetthalli at Hunsur-Periyapatna border a school teacher killed her one-year-old son before hanging herself to a ceiling fan at her house.

Police and family members said that 27-year-old Mahalakshmi alias Kusuma alias Kushi took the extreme step unable to bear the harassment from her husband Prashanth. Mahalakshmi, the daughter of Venkatesh of Muduganoor Village near Hunsur, was given in a marriage to Prashanth, son of Jayakrishnegowda.

Mahalakshmi was working as a teacher at Koluvige Village Girijana Ashrama School and she was working on a  contract basis.

She went missing from her house three days back and accordingly, her husband had lodged a Police complaint. After a search, she was traced in Mysuru and the Police and her husband had convinced her to come back to the house.

Today morning, she served tea to her husband and after he went to his fields, she killed her one-year-old son Prathwik Gowda alias Pinky by hanging the child to a wooden pillar of the house. She later hung herself to the ceiling fan.

The incident came to light when Prashanth came back from the fields.

He immediately alerted the Hunsur Rural Police and told the officers that his wife was suffering from severe tooth  ache and she had killed the child and ended her life.

Mahalakshmi’s brother, Prithvi Gowda, however, has lodged a Police complaint that his sister was routinely harassed for her salary and this had forced her to take the extreme step.