Haveri: 17-yo commits suicide after sister elopes with lover

Haveri: After her sister eloped with her lover, a 17-year-old girl ended her life fearing that she wouldn’t be able to marry.

The deceased has been identified as Shweta Yattinamani (17).

Depressed by the desertion of one daughter and the death of the other, the also mother attempted suicide soon after. She survived and is recovering at the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences.

As per the FIR Shweta committed suicide by drinking poison after her elder sister Anita eloped with her neighbor. Her Manjavva allegedly drank the remaining poison in the bottle. Mallappa Yattinamani, her father was not at home when his daughter and wife drank poison.

“The couple had four daughters, two of whom were married. Theirs was a poor family but both Mallappa and Manjavva had dreams of marrying their younger daughters. While Malappa was searching for a groom for Anita, she fell in love with a neighbor, Mahesh, an orphan, with whom she ran away. We do not know where the two of them are now,” said family sources.