A 36-year-old software program skilled who’s suspected of stabbing his 32-year-old spouse in Bengaluru on March 26 and stuffing her physique in a trolley bag could have meant to eliminate the physique however deserted the concept after its deal with broke whereas he tried to raise the bags, in keeping with police sources.
The physique of Gauri Anil Sambrekar, the spouse of Rakesh Rajendra Khedekar, was discovered stuffed right into a trolley bag mendacity in a toilet of the home by the proprietor of the constructing. The proprietor opened the door of the rented property on the second flooring of the home, together with a police crew, after Khedekar referred to as a neighbour to report the presence of his spouse’s physique.
“The deal with of the bag is damaged, which can have resulted within the abandoning of the physique on the rented premises for the reason that bag couldn’t be carried down two flooring,” a police supply mentioned. “There was lots of mucus within the trolley bag, which suggests the sufferer could have been unconscious when she was stuffed within the bag and should have additionally suffocated,” the supply added.
Khedekar is beneath the watch of the Bengaluru police at a Pune hospital the place he was admitted after allegedly trying suicide within the Shirwal space of Maharashtra’s Satara district, the police supply mentioned.
Preliminary investigations have indicated that Khedekar allegedly brought on three slash accidents on the neck of his spouse and three on her stomach area with a knife earlier than stuffing her physique within the trolley bag. The police are ready for a forensic report to determine if the reason for dying was the bleeding for the slash wounds or asphyxiation within the trolley bag.
The precise nature of the homicide and the motive will likely be identified solely when the accused is secured and questioned, police sources mentioned.
The police investigation has revealed that Khedekar left his rented residence at round 12.45 am on March 27 after allegedly murdering his spouse at round 9 pm. The probe additionally discovered that the couple have been in a live-in relationship for 4 years earlier than they married two years in the past. “We are going to know the precise motive solely once we get hold of custody and interrogate him,” the police supply mentioned.
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The police are taking a look at whether or not the homicide was premeditated or a consequence of sudden provocation. “The husband had moved to Bengaluru over a month earlier than his spouse and located the rented lodging. They paid a lease of round Rs 6,000 for the one room home. It appears to have been a lot beneath their means,” a supply acquainted with the case mentioned.
The police have discovered that the couple belonged to well-to-do households in Maharashtra, with one of many households being within the jewelry enterprise.
“The husband had accomplished a BCom diploma whereas the spouse had accomplished a course in mass media. He informed the landlady that he was working as a challenge supervisor in a software program agency whereas his spouse was unemployed. We’re verifying these features,” the police supply mentioned.
Khedekar, who fled to Maharashtra after the alleged homicide, had been residing on the home since February 24. “He appears to have tried suicide solely after ascertaining that the police had arrived on the constructing and had discovered the physique,” the supply mentioned.
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On Friday, Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda mentioned that the prima facie indication from the probe is that the husband dedicated the homicide and the motive is a “marital dispute”.
“The husband is alleged to have tried suicide. He has been admitted to a hospital in Pune. The blood relations of the sufferer have come to Bengaluru to determine the physique and file a criticism. The prima facie indication is that the motive for the homicide is a marital dispute,” Dayananda mentioned.
The police criticism
The Hulimavu police registered an FIR within the homicide on Thursday night time primarily based on a criticism filed by Sanitha G, the proprietor of the home the place the couple lived. Sanitha knowledgeable the police that the accused, Rakesh Khedekar, telephoned one other tenant, Prabir Singh, and knowledgeable him concerning the presence of his spouse Gauri Anil Sambrekar’s physique within the rented home the place that they had been staying.
In keeping with Sanitha’s criticism, a tenant telephoned her at round 4.35 pm on March 27 and acknowledged that he had acquired a name from Khedekar, who allegedly mentioned his spouse’s physique was mendacity in the home and requested him to name the police.
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Primarily based on the knowledge, Sanitha telephoned the police management room quantity 112. After a police crew arrived on the scene, the home proprietor opened the locked home the place Khedekar and his spouse had been residing. Once they entered the home, they allegedly discovered a big trolley bag within the lavatory with blood stains close to it. When the trolley bag was opened, Sambrekar’s physique was discovered stuffed inside, as per the FIR.
The Bengaluru police started monitoring the situation of Khedekar’s cell phone primarily based on the calls he had made to the tenant and located that he had reached Maharashtra. They alerted the native police and dispatched a crew from Bengaluru to find him. The Maharashtra Police tracked down the software program skilled shortly after he allegedly tried suicide.
A police crew from Bengaluru is in Pune and can take Khedekar into custody as quickly as he’s discharged from the hospital, the police mentioned.
The police are prone to obtain the autopsy report after the medical examination of Sambrekar’s physique on Saturday, sources mentioned.