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Youth goes missing; Another suicide at Netravathi bridge suspected

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Mangaluru: A 26-year-old man went missing near a bridge in Jeppinamogaru, Mangaluru on Friday, August 16 night. It is the same bridge from which Cafe-Coffee Day founder-chairman Siddhartha had jumped into the Netravathi river.

The missing person has been identified as Sadashiva, a resident of Kadaba. Sources within the police department said that Sadashiva had gone missing after parking his motorcycle near the bridge that is built across the Nethravathi River. People suspect that, after parking his motorcycle, he might have committed suicide by jumping from the bridge.

The motorcycle is registered to Sadashiva as per the documents recovered by the police.

A search operation for the missing youth is now underway.

This is the third such incident to occur at the bridge since Siddhartha’s suicide. A person named Girish had jumped from the bridge two days after Siddhartha’s death but he was rescued by the local fishermen. A few days later, a 24-year-old woman committed suicide from the same bridge and her body was fished out of the river later.

Although there have been discussions about the installation of CCTV cameras and raising of the bridge’s railings, no concrete measures have been taken so far.

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