Mangalore sources stated that in a latest development, a fishermen from Mangalore who was passing by the bridge from where Cafe Coffee Day founder and former CM SM Krishna's son-in-law siddhartha VG went missing has said that he saw the business tycoon jump into the Nethravathi river from Pillar No.8. Meanwhile he also said even though he wanted to save his life, he couldn't as he was all alone.
Furthermore he said he actually swam a little distance to
save him but because the rush of water increased and the visibility was getting
low because of it was getting darker, I had to abandon my rescue operation. Reportedly
the police said that Cafe Coffee Day retail chain outlets founder and
son-in-law of former Karnataka Chief Minister S.M. Krishna, V.G. Siddhartha,
who went missing on Monday night, is suspected to have committed suicide by
jumping into a river near Mangaluru.
Mangaluru Police Commissioner sandeep Patil told reporters "siddhartha is
suspected to have jumped into the Nethravathi river near Mangaluru from the
bridge though his body has not been traced so far despite massive search
operation". Previously Siddhartha's driver Basavaraj Patil filed a
complaint in a Mangaluru police station that his boss was missing from the
bridge over the river where he got down from his car and wanted to take a walk.
Patil in his complaint said "siddhartha got down from the car on the
bridge across the river and asked him (Patil) to wait at the other end of it as
he wanted to walk for a while but did not turn up even an hour later".
