Udupi : A priest from Karkala taluk Nirebailur who was on his way to Mumbai for pooja has reportedly committed suicide at the Kandivili temple premises in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Krishna Shanti (37), a resident of Nirebailuru, Karkala, is a suicided priest. He went to worship at the Bhadrakali Temple in Mumbai’s Kandivili area on May 17. It is said that he temporarily went to work as a priest but had no work to do, but had committed suicide due to worries that the lockdown extension and of not being able to return home.
In the village, he performed the worship service. He was on his way to Mumbai on the 17th of this month after he was asked to serve as a temporary priest at the Bhadrakali Temple in Mumbai.
He was staying in a temple room alone and committed suicide by hanging himself in the temple premises on April 14.