Bengaluru: The bodies of the two women, who were brutally murdered at their residence in Vasanth Nagar on Monday, were subjected to postmortem at the Bowring Hospital mortuary on Tuesday morning and were later handed over to the family members. Santhoshi Bai, 59, and her daughter-in-law Latha, 39, were found with their throats slit at their house on Monday.
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On Tuesday, hundreds of friends and neighbours of the family, most of them from the Jain community, arrived at the house of the deceased on Miller’s Road and expressed their grief. The mortal remains of the two women were later taken to the Hebbal crematorium and the final rites were performed, a family friend said.
The High Grounds police, who have formed teams to catch the assailants, have ruled out that it was a case of murders for gain and that jewellery items were taken away only to mislead the investigators. “We cannot say that the murders were committed purely for gain, as there was other jewellery in the house and that was left untouched,” a senior police officer said. “We suspect that known insiders have committed the crime. We are also investigating into the rivalry or vengeance angles.”
Meanwhile, rumours were doing rounds on Monday evening that two Nepalese men, who had come to Santhoshi Bai’s house for cleaning and painting the house for Diwali, might have committed the murders and made away with the gold ornaments. But both the police and family members rubbished them as rumours.
