A 51-year-old man on Wednesday slit his throat with a knife and tried to die by suicide inside Karnataka Excessive Court docket in entrance of Chief Justice N V Anjaria. The person was instantly rushed to a hospital.
The incident happened round 12.15 pm when the person, S Chinnam Srinivas, and his spouse entered the court docket corridor which was presided over by Chief Justice N V Anjaria and Justice H B Prabhakara Sastry.
As soon as the petition was learn out, Srinivas pulled out a knife from his trouser pocket and slit his throat. Chief Justice Anjaria instantly known as the police and requested them to take Srinivas to the hospital.
Justice Sastry, who was attributable to retire on Wednesday, expressed anxiousness over the incident and requested how Srinivas managed to cross by way of the safety with a knife in his possession.
A police officer stated Srinivas was shifted to the Bowring Hospital the place the docs are treating him. “His meals pipe has been broken as a result of lower and he’s being handled on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU),” stated a police officer.
Upon questioning Srinivas’s spouse, the police got here to know that the couple was upset because the Karnataka Excessive Court docket had earlier quashed an FIR filed in Mysuru in 2021 towards a Hyderabad-based development agency. Srinivas has alleged that the agency has duped him of Rs 93 lakh. The Excessive Court docket had directed Srinivas to method the decrease court docket to resolve the matter since it’s a civil dispute.
Vidhana Soudha police have registered a case and are probing the matter.