Mangalore, October 17: In a shocking incident, a young professional couple from Dakshina Kanandda district was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the city of Bangalore.
The deceased are 28-year-old Engineer Sandeep Hegde, son of Chittaranjan Hegde from Thodar near Moodbidri, and his 26-year-old wife Doctor Saumya Kumari, daughter of Dharanendra Jain, owner of Hotel Shanthi Sagar in Ujire.
According to sources, Sandeep, who was working as a Process Engineer at Tata Services, had married Saumya, an Ayurvadi doctor nearly four year ago.
The couple was residing at Amarajyothi Nagara at Vijayanagar in Bangalore.
It is suspected that the couple might have committed suicide. They had no children.
Neighbours suspected that wife may have ended her life first and after witnessing the tragedy husband too may have resorted to the extreme step.
Police are investigating the cause of the deaths. The tragedy came to light when Anup Kumar, Sowmya Kumari's relative, visited the couple's home on Tuesday night.
Anup Kumar said Hegde's mother, Shashikala, had alerted him that her son was not responding to phone calls. On her request, Kumar went to their house.
“When there was no response from inside, we entered the house by breaking open the door. Sowmya Kumari was lying on the bed with a part of her veil tied across her neck, while another part was hanging from a ceiling fan. I noticed blood and foam in her mouth. I found Sandeep's body hanging from a ceiling fan in another room,” he stated in a complaint.
Anup Kumar said that both families were shocked. They are clueless about the cause of the tragedy as the couple had no marital discord or financial problems.
The house owner, Veena Subramanya, said the couple were tenants in her house for the last three years. They were “happily married”, she said.
“Sowmya came to my house on Monday and I spoke to Sandeep the same night. That was my last meeting with them,” she said.
Sandeep Hegde was the only son of his parents. His father, Chittaranjan, is a businessman at Moodbidri. Hegde did his MBA at Mangalore and later shifted to Bangalore after he got the job.
Shashikala, his mother, has a heart ailment. She was inconsolable and swooned when she heard about her son's death. Sandeep and Sowmya visited Mudbidri days before the tragedy. They stayed with Sandeep's parents for three days, said family sources.
The bodies were taken to Moodbidri for cremation after an autopsy at Victoria Hospital.
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