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Bengaluru: An elderly woman was found murdered in her home at Uttarahalli in southern Bengaluru on Tuesday.
The deceased has been identified as Shreelakshmi (65), wife of Ashwath Narayan.
A senior police officer said the complainant, Ashwath Narayan, had left for work around 9.30 am.
At 2.15 pm, he tried to contact his wife over the phone repeatedly, but she did not answer. Around 5.30 pm, he called their tenant, Panniraj, asking him to check on her. Panniraj’s wife found Shreelakshmi lying unconscious on the floor.
When Ashwath Narayan rushed home, he found injuries on her neck, lips and face, and noticed that her gold mangalsutra was missing. He alerted the Subramanyapura police.
The police said preliminary investigation revealed that Shreelakshmi spoke with her sister Sampath Lakshmi in the afternoon. She told her that she was watching television with her husband and that she had stepped out to speak with her.
The police suspect that a person known to the family may have entered the house and strangled Shreelakshmi before fleeing with her mangalsutra.
The police have registered a case under Sections 103(1) and 311 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Efforts are on to trace the assailant.