Mangaluru : A tent house rental owner allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the Nethravathi Bridge at Ullal, early in the morning, on Friday.

The victim’s body was recovered a few hours after the incident near Kotepura Beach under Ullal police station limits.

According to police, Navesh Kottary, 29, a resident of Ullal, left his house on his motorbike, stopped near the bridge, and jumped off it to end his life.

Police said reasons for him in taking the extreme step was not known. The incident took place around 7.30am.

Police, who started to search for his body, found it near Kotepura around 9.30am. A large number of people had gathered near the bridge after the incident took place, and this is the first such incident of the year. The body was shifted to a private hospital for a postmortem. A case has been registered at the Ullal police station.