Farmer kills himself three months after flood took away land

Mysore | Thursday | 17th January, 2019

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The house that we lost belonged to our grandmother and was built at a cost of Rs 20 lakh. In accordance with the provisions in my grandmother’s will, the house passed to Charan, my aunt and myself. Charan NB, a resident of Jodupala in Madikeri taluk, cultivated a small parcel of land that was in his mother’s name in Monnangeri village, on which he grew paddy, areca and coffee. These losses had left Charan a worried man, and he grew anxious thinking about how these problems were to be solved,” Yatish said.Tragedies have continued to dog the family. Besides the slow pace at which construction of their new house was progressing, their mother, Sheelavathi, suffered a heart attack and they had to take her to Mysuru for treatment..