Senior Branch Manager of Karnataka Bank, Krishnamurthy A. committed suicide by hanging himself in the store room of the branch on Friday morning.
Enquires revealed that Krishnamurthy came to the branch at around 8.00 a.m. after collecting the bank keys from the official, wrote a death note and hanged himself to a ceiling fan in the store room.
Krishnamurthy in his death note, which was typed from a PC and found on his table in his chamber, said that he had resorted to the extreme step due to depression and after failing as a branch head in managing the non-performing assets (NPA) and that nobody was responsible for his death.
In another note to the Bank management, Krishnamurthy has written that he had extended over drawings on over-draft accounts of some of the customers, to avoid these accounts slipping into NPA, that too with the permission of Bank’s Regional Office in Shivamogga.
He has also reportedly mentioned the names of some of the customers who had availed over drawing over and above the over-draft limit.
He has requested the management not to fix any responsibility on him and provide employment to one of his two daughters on compensatory grounds.
He has requested the customers to repay their loans promptly so that his family members could live peacefully. He has also requested the police not to hand over his body to his family after subjecting it to post-mortem.
Brucepet police have registered a case and are doing the ‘mahajar’.
