Bengaluru man who stabbed wife to death in bus stand surrenders

Bengaluru: The man who fatally stabbed his wife in front of her teenage daughter at a bus stand in Sunkadakatte on Monday has surrendered to the police.

Car driver Lohitashwa, 43, turned himself in at the Kamakshipalya police station, hours after stabbing his 32-year-old wife Rekha multiple times in the chest and stomach in full public view between 11.30 am and 11.40 am.

The couple frequently quarreled after their marriage. They fought on Monday morning, after which Rekha left for the bus stand with her 13-year-old daughter. Lohitashwa followed them and started to fight again, culminating in the fatal stabbing.

The daughter is a key eyewitness in the murder, the police said.