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Bengaluru: A woman in a live-in relationship was killed by her partner, who later died by suicide, in northwestern Bengaluru on Monday night.
Police suspect Lakshminarayana (51) believed that his partner Lalitha G (49) was having an affair. The couple worked at factories in Peenya.
Police said they quarrelled after consuming alcohol. Lakshminarayana allegedly strangled Lalitha and then hanged himself.
Lalitha, from Tumakuru, had moved in with him after her husband’s death. He was from Hyderabad and separated from his wife. They rented a house in Indira Priyadarshini Layout, Rajagopalanagar.
On Tuesday morning, neighbours entered the house after seeing the door open. They found Lakshminarayana hanging and alerted the house owner before calling the police helpline 112.
Police arrived and found that Lalitha had been strangled.
The bodies were shifted to Victoria Hospital for post-mortem. Based on a complaint by Lalitha’s daughter, police have opened a murder case.