JOIN USVenkatesh (32) and Chinnamma (30) were married five years ago. Though Venkatesh belonged to a wealthy family, he worked as a mason in the City.
Recently, Venkatesh’s father divided the property equally among his four sons, ignoring Venkatesh, the last among the siblings.
Later, Venkatesh learnt that he did not get a share in the property as he had no child. He returned home and picked up a fight with his wife, blaming her for his plight. He left home and returned late at night, only to find his wife hanging from the ceiling fan hook, police said. A shocked Venkatesh managed to lower Chinnamma’s body, but overcome by grief and fear, he hanged himself with the same veil his wife had used to kill herself, police said.
Man stoned to death
A catering supervisor was allegedly stoned to death by three of his co-workers near Rajajinagar Industrial area in Kamakshipalya locality.
The victim was Upendra (35). Police said they chanced upon the alleged killers after the Magadi Road Hoysala night patrol vehicle spotted the three youths moving suspiciously and alerted the neighbouring Kamakshipalya police Cheetah squad. Constables Venkatesh and Pratap swung into action and nabbed Somashekar, one of the suspects.
Soon, Ravi and Shankar too were caught, police said. The trio confessed to killing Upendra during a quarrel over Rs 10,000.
35 TV artistes arrested
Television artistes Ravi Kiran, Abhinaya, Sunil Puranik, Shailaja, Raghu, Kitti, Malatesh, Lateesh and TV serial director B Suresh were among the 35 people arrested by the Ashoknagar police in connection with the ransacking of the Zee Kannada TV Office on Monday.
Police booked all the suspects under sections 447 and 427 of Indian Penal Code. All of them obtained bail and were released later, police said.
The Zee Kannada television network has claimed it did not dub the Hindi serial Jhansi Ki Rani. The KTA members could have discussed the matter and settled disputes, if any, pertaining to the programme.