Cops on the Suryanagar station in Bengaluru had been left surprised within the early hours of Saturday when a person arrived carrying his spouse’s severed head on a scooter and calmly surrendered.
The incident unfolded round 1 am when M Shankar, 26, pulled up on a gearless scooter outdoors the police station.
Three constables and an assistant sub-inspector, who had been getting ready for evening patrol, seen the severed head of a lady positioned on the car’s footboard.
“We requested who he was and why he had come. Calmly, he mentioned in Kannada, ‘I’ve come to give up. I killed my spouse, and that is her head,” recalled one of many officers current on the police station.
The sufferer was recognized as S Manasa, 26.
The couple lived in Heelalige and labored in an industrial space—Shankar as an assistant supervisor at a battery manufacturing unit in Bommanahalli, and Manasa at a close-by manufacturing facility.
In response to police sources, the wedding had been troubled because of Shankar’s suspicions about his spouse’s alleged relationship with a co-worker.
The scenario escalated on Could 3 when Shankar claimed he caught Manasa along with her alleged lover at their house after returning early from work.
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Following this incident, Manasa left house and moved right into a paying visitor lodging close to her office, leaving their three-year-old daughter along with her mother and father in Hebbagodi.
Shankar subsequently filed a lacking particular person criticism on the similar police station, the place he would later give up.
Cops contacted Manasa and facilitated a quick mediation session, after which she returned house with Shankar in what seemed to be an try at reconciliation.
Nevertheless, tensions boiled over once more on Friday night.
Neighbours reported listening to a heated argument between the couple, adopted by sounds of violence.
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Throughout the altercation, Shankar allegedly retrieved a knife from the kitchen and beheaded his spouse.
Police sources mentioned Shankar sat beside the physique for a while earlier than deciding to give up.
He then positioned the severed head on his scooter and rode to the police station.
Shankar has been arrested and charged with homicide.
The couple’s three-year-old daughter is now within the care of her maternal grandparents.