Siddhartha cremated in family estate
Search ends: The body of V. G. Siddhartha being removed from the banks of Nethravati river near Hoigebazar on Wednesday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTSPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Café Coffee Day founder and billionaire entrepreneur V.G. Siddhartha, whose body was traced in Nethravati river near Mangaluru 36 hours after he went missing, was on Wednesday cremated in his family’s coffee estate in Chatanahalli village in Hassan district.
His eldest son Amartya Hegde lit the funeral pyre after the last rites were performed in an atmosphere marked by quiet grief, as his mother Malavika Hegde and grandfather and former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna struggled with their emotions.
Earlier in the day, thousands of people paid their last respects to Siddhartha at Coffee Day Global Ltd, a firm owned by him in Chikkamagaluru. Siddhartha’s biggest entrepreneurial innovation, CCD, had its roots in the coffee-growing hilly districts of Chikkamagaluru and Hassan, where his father owned large estates.
Mobile phone recovered
It was in the early hours of Wednesday that the body of Siddhartha was found by a group of local fishermen in Nethravati river.
He had gone missing from the bridge across the river on Monday evening and an intensive, all-day search by a 300-strong team on Tuesday had failed to find the body. Three fishermen found it floating near the Hoigebazar area, where the river joins the Arabian Sea, at 6.30 a.m. They brought it ashore and informed the police. The police have also recovered his mobile phone.
The police are continuing investigations into the circumstances leading to his death, with a letter purportedly written by him blaming the Income Tax Department for his “succumbing to the situation”.
Body was recovered from Nethravati river near Mangaluru;
thousands pay their last respects
01/08/2019,
01/08/2019,
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,
HASSAN/MANGALURU/CHIKKAMAGALURU
Search ends: The body of V. G. Siddhartha being removed from the banks of Nethravati river near Hoigebazar on Wednesday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTSPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Café Coffee Day founder and billionaire entrepreneur V.G. Siddhartha, whose body was traced in Nethravati river near Mangaluru 36 hours after he went missing, was on Wednesday cremated in his family’s coffee estate in Chatanahalli village in Hassan district.
His eldest son Amartya Hegde lit the funeral pyre after the last rites were performed in an atmosphere marked by quiet grief, as his mother Malavika Hegde and grandfather and former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna struggled with their emotions.
Earlier in the day, thousands of people paid their last respects to Siddhartha at Coffee Day Global Ltd, a firm owned by him in Chikkamagaluru. Siddhartha’s biggest entrepreneurial innovation, CCD, had its roots in the coffee-growing hilly districts of Chikkamagaluru and Hassan, where his father owned large estates.
Mobile phone recovered
It was in the early hours of Wednesday that the body of Siddhartha was found by a group of local fishermen in Nethravati river.
He had gone missing from the bridge across the river on Monday evening and an intensive, all-day search by a 300-strong team on Tuesday had failed to find the body. Three fishermen found it floating near the Hoigebazar area, where the river joins the Arabian Sea, at 6.30 a.m. They brought it ashore and informed the police. The police have also recovered his mobile phone.
The police are continuing investigations into the circumstances leading to his death, with a letter purportedly written by him blaming the Income Tax Department for his “succumbing to the situation”.
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