BENGALURU: A day after he brutally hacked his sister-in-law to death with a machete at her residence in Ayyappa Nagar in KR Puram police station limits, the police arrested the accused on Thursday not before a high drama of a suicide attempt by him in the middle of the road.
The accused, Vinayaka Reddy, killed his younger brother Mohan Reddy’s wife Sumati (29) and was absconding. Before he was arrested, Vinayaka consumed a pesticide. But the police rushed him to a hospital, where he is being treated.
Vinayaka confessed to killing Sumati for refusing to have sex with him. He told the police that he and Sumati were in an illicit relationship over the last few years and he had left his wife for Sumati. The two started their relationship when they were staying in their hometown in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. When Mohan moved to Bengaluru for employment, Sumati and Vinayaka tried to stop him by insisting that he work at his hometown. But Mohan, who had no idea about his wife’s relationship with his brother, did not budge. Vinayaka had also lent Rs 4 lakh to Mohan at Sumati’s insistence.
Mohan and Sumati moved to Bengaluru eight months ago and rented a house in Ayyappa Nagar. Mohan started working at a private company, while Sumati stayed at the house. Vinayaka visited Monah’s house frequently when he was at work and demanded sex from Sumati in return for the money he had lent her husband. But of late, Sumati started repenting her relationship with Vinayaka and avoided him. She refused to have sex with him over the last few months, the police said.
On Wednesday, Vinayaka came to Sumati’s house after Mohan left for work and again demanded that she has sex with him. The two started arguing which ended in the murder.
The neighbours saw Vinayaka running out of the house after killing Sumati and filed a complaint with the K.R. Puram police, who arrested him before he could leave the city.
Iliicit affair
Vinayaka confessed to killing Sumati for refusing to have sex with him. He told the police that he and Sumati were in an illicit relationship over the last few years and he had left his wife for Sumati. The two started their relationship when they were staying in their hometown in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.
