B’luru: Woman bludgeons husband to death; blames it on unknown assailants


Team Udayavani, Apr 12, 2022, 2:21 PM IST

Bengaluru: A woman killed her husband with an iron rod and blamed the crime on unknown assailants, police said on Monday. She has been taken into custody.

The accused identified as Varalakshmi (48) allegedly killed her husband, Umesh (52) by hitting him on the head with an iron rod while he was asleep at their residence in Andrahalli. The couple was married for 28 years and has two daughters – an engineer and a BCom graduate, police said.

The case has been registered in the Byadarahalli Station in this regard.

As per the police, the couple quarreled every day on trivial issues. Umesh was upset that Varalakshmi did not give birth to a male progeny. He used to pick fights with his wife over small issues and even physically assaulted her on several occasions.

Due to their differences, the couple slept separately, while their daughters slept in another room, sources added.

On Monday morning at around 4 am, Varalakshmi inadvertently bumped into her husband who was sleeping in the hall while returning to her room from the common toilet. Umesh, who was furious that he had been woken up, kicked and verbally abused her. Varalakhmi returned to the bedroom in tears and thought hard about the incident. After much deliberation, she decided to kill her husband.

She bolted her daughters’ rooms, picked an iron rod lying in the house, and used it to bludgeon Umesh to death. For an hour she lay beside Umesh’s lifeless body and thereafter woke her daughters and took him to a hospital where he was pronounced brought dead, police said.

To evade arrest Varalakshmi invented a story about an unknown assailant hitting him on the head. She said her husband quarreled with someone on the phone before sleeping that night. But police found her statements to be misleading. They also found clues that showed an attempt to clean the crime scene.

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