After fighting for months from Australian authorities to regain the custody of their two kids, an NRI woman committed suicide in her native Belagavi district of Karnataka.

As per reports, 45-year-old Priyadarshini Patil and her techie husband Lingaraj Patil were fighting for the custody of their two children, Amartya (17) and Aparajita (13). The couple lost the case after their teenage son’s health, who was suffering from a serious illness, worsened because of an alleged medical lapse.

On filing a complaint against the hospital because of medical negligence, Priyadarshini became the main culprit. The Australian authority found the couple ‘guilty of mishandling’ their children and took custody of both teens. Australian authorities took the custody of the two teens citing local child protection laws.

Priyadarshini had even asked the Australian government to withdraw the citizenship of their children and let her take them to India for treatment but had not got any response from the government.

In her suicide note, she has accused the Australian authorities and residents of a locality in Sydney of harassing her family.

“Our lives are threatened. I am compelled to end my life for the survival of my children and husband Lingaraj. I am accepting my death for the good of my family. From 2021 to the present day DCJ (Australia’s Department of Communities and Justice) has ruined my family. The residents of Verlie Street in Sydney have harassed us,” Priyadarshini said in her death note addressed to her father.