Man arrested for killing wife

The city police have cracked the recent murder case of Namma Metro security guard Bhanumathi, 32, at Baiyyappanahalli and arrested her husband Somashekar, an auto driver

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Bhanumati, a resident of Bandenagara slum, was found dead  at her house on November 11.

Somashekar has confessed to the crime and said Bhanumathi had been working as a guard at the Baiyyappanahalli Namma Metro station for the last one year and had an extra-marital affair with another man.

She used to talk to him for hours on the mobile phone.

Enraged by this, Somashekar strangulated her to death, said the police.

Ragpicker killed

A ragpicker was killed and two others suffered serious injuries when the tricycle they were riding on collided with an SUV head-on at Carmelaram Road in Whitefield on Wednesday.
Mohammed Kalam Mirda, 50, is the dead. The injured Mohammed Saimudul and Mohammed Yusuf have been admitted to St John’s Hospital.