Newskarnataka – Mysore
Mysore: Former Karnataka minister SA Ramdas has been recovering at a private hospital here on Wednesday after a suicide bid over an affair with a woman that turned sour.
The 54-year-old former Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker suffered cuts in two nerves in the neck region when he tried to hang himself with a bed-sheet tied to a ceiling fan in a guest house room. He was rushed to a hospital in an unconscious state.
A day after former minister SA Ramdas allegedly attempted to end his life, the Kuvempunagar police on Wednesday booked him for attempt to suicide.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) A N Rajanna told that a case had been registered against Ramdas under Section 309 of the IPC. The action followed a complaint filed by Nagendra, the driver of Ramdas, who was present at the guesthouse near Vivekananda Circle when the latter attempted suicide.
The complaint says that Ramdas had already tied his neck with a bedsheet and was trying to kick the chair beneath. It also states that a disturbed Ramdas entered the guesthouse around 6 pm, and was on the phone for many hours. He refused to have dinner even after his brother Srikanth Das asked him for it.
Dr Somanath, Medical Superintendent of Apollo BGS Hospitals, where Ramdas has been admitted, said the patient was responding to treatment.
The incident happened within hours after the woman Premakumari alleged that Ramdas cheated her after having an affair over the past five years with the assurance of marriage.
Revealing her relationship with Ramdas, Premakumari claimed he married her three months ago before the family diety at his house in the city.
Premakumari, from Chikmagalur and a mother of two children, secured a government job on compassionate grounds after her husband, a police constable, died over six years ago.
“He (Ramdas) threatened to commit suicide if I spoke to the media and revealed our conversations, which I had recorded on my mobile handset,” she told reporters Tuesday.
Premakumari said she met Ramdas, who was the medical education minister in the first BJP government (2008-13), first in 2009 while seeking a transfer to the deputy commissioner’s office in Mysore from Chikmagalur for her children’s education.
