Belthangady: Rachana Jain (18), a B.Com student from Ujire College in Belthangady taluk, staying in Kanyadi near Dharmasthala, died by hanging at her residence on Sept.12, Monday night, with a suicide note left behind to say that she could not live without her late father who left her a decade back, only leaving fond memories for her.
Late Jagannath Rao was the father in question. On the day of suicide, Rachana called her close friends for a dinner at home. She sent a SMS “I miss you all, keep smiling”. She did not blame anybody and asked people to forget her, if not forgive her for the suicide note.
Her mother Sarojini was shocked, when on Tuesday morning, she found Rachana hanging. The entire household could not believe such an end. Rachana wrote pages for many years in a diary, asking for her father, “Where have you gone?”
Rachana leaves a brother and a widowed mother to mourn her loss, besides shell-shocked local people.