Bengaluru Police on Sunday arrested a man for allegedly killing his wife after a fight over his drinking habit. According to the police, the man not only murdered his wife but slept with her corpse for hours.
On the night of April 6, accused Venkatesh, 35, strangled his wife to death with a saree at his residence in Ranganathapura following a fight over the latter’s drinking problem.
According to an Indian Express report, the next morning their nine-year-old son tried to wake his mother up and cried loudly when she failed to respond.
Upon hearing the noises, the neighbours rushed to the house and found the woman named Nethravathi dead, the police said. The neighbours informed the police that they had to intervene the other night when the couple was fighting but did not know what transpired later.
According to the police, the murder took place around midnight after Venkatesh shifted his son, who was sleeping with his mother, to another place. As he was drunk, Venkatesh slept with his wife’s body, a police officer said.
The police, who were informed of the incident by the neighbours, arrested Venkatesh and said the accused confessed to the murder. Further investigations were underway.
Last month, a man was arrested in Maharashtra’s Thane district for allegedly strangulating his 27-year-old wife to death over the suspicion of infidelity and burying her body in a dilapidated house.
The body was recovered from Angaon village in Bhiwandi taluka of the district, he said.
“A police patrol team received information that a woman, identified as Jyotsana Shelar from Ambarnath, went missing on March 5. A missing person’s report was filed by her relatives at the Shivaji Nagar police station,” Assistant Inspector Dharmaraj Sonke of Ganeshpuri police station said.
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