A software program skilled who’s alleged to have murdered his spouse at their rented residence in Bengaluru on Thursday earlier than fleeing to Maharashtra reported the homicide himself by informing a tenant within the residential constructing of the presence of his spouse’s physique within the locked condo on the primary ground.
The physique of Gauri Anil Sambrekar, 32, the spouse of the software program skilled, Rakesh Rajendra Khedekar, 36, was discovered stuffed inside a trolley bag mendacity in a rest room of the home by the proprietor of the constructing – who opened the door of the rented property, together with a police group, after being knowledgeable by the tenant of the cellphone name he obtained from Khedekar.
After informing the tenant of the presence of the physique of his spouse, the suspect, Rakesh Khedekar, who fled in a automobile to Maharashtra, is alleged to have tried suicide however was discovered by the Maharashtra Police.
“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 establish the physique and file a criticism. The prima facie indication is that the motive for the homicide is a marital dispute,” Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda mentioned Friday.
Based on the FIR registered by the Hulimavu police within the homicide of Gauri Anil Sambrekar – based mostly on a criticism filed by the proprietor of the home the place the couple lived – the accused Rakesh Khedekar telephoned one other tenant Prabir Singh and knowledgeable him concerning the presence of his spouse’s physique within the rented home the place he had been residing.
Based on the criticism by Sanitha G, the home proprietor, the opposite tenant who was residing on the bottom ground telephoned her at round 4.35 pm on Thursday and said that he had obtained a name from Khedekar saying the physique of his spouse was mendacity in the home.
Based mostly on the knowledge, the complainant telephoned the police emergency variety of 112, and after a police group arrived on the scene, the home proprietor opened the locked first ground the place Khedekar and his spouse stayed.
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The Bengaluru police started monitoring the placement of Khedekar’s cell phone based mostly on the calls he had made to the tenant and located that he had reached Maharashtra. They alerted the native police and dispatched a group from Bengaluru as properly to find Khedekar. The Maharashtra Police tracked down the software program skilled shortly after he allegedly tried suicide.
A police group from Bengaluru has reached Pune and can take Rakesh Khedekar into custody for the probe of the homicide of his spouse as quickly as he’s discharged from the hospital, the police mentioned.
“The girl’s entire physique, which was intact, was discovered stuffed within the suitcase, which was within the washroom,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Sarah Fathima mentioned on Thursday.
The couple, married for 2 years, was initially from Maharashtra, the police mentioned, and moved to the rented home in February 2025. Khedekar was employed as a challenge supervisor in a reputed personal agency. Sambrekar was a homemaker and was in search of jobs.
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“Forensic analysts have discovered a stab damage on the physique,” an investigator mentioned.
The police suspect that Khedekar supposed to eliminate the physique after the homicide however later deserted the plan, fled the scene, and knowledgeable the tenant concerning the presence of his spouse’s physique earlier than making an attempt suicide.
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