Man clubs wife to death, hangs himself
BANGALORE: A 64-year-old man clubbed his wife to death with a stick used to prepare ragi balls and then hanged himself in their residence near Mahalakshmi Layout on Tuesday morning. She was a private financier and entrepreneur and the couple often fought over her chit fund dealings and brusque way of recovering money.
Preliminary investigation revealed that a heated argument broke out between D Nanjappa Dasappa and Shashikala in the morning and he hit her on the head. "Shashikala, in her fifties, sustained serious skull injuries and died on the spot. Nanjappa panicked and hanged himself," deputy commissioner of police (North) Sandeep Patil said.
The couple is survived by son Manjunath and two married daughters, Devika and Dhanalakshmi.
Moolah rage?
Nanjappa Dasappa didn't like his wife Shashikala doing the money-lending business. And Shashikala allegedly taunted her husband that the family was prosperous, thanks to her business.
He spoke to daughter before ending life
Manjunath Nanjappa teaches mathematics at Christ University.
Nanjappa is a former ITI employee. Close relatives told police that Nanjappa didn't like his wife being in the money-lending business. He was upset about the way she recovered money from debtors and chit fund deals with women in the neighbourhood and said it was unbecoming of their family. Shashikala also allegedly taunted her husband on how her business had made the family prosperous and he did not contribute anything, police were told.
Devika was in tears when she recalled her father's phone call around 10.30am. "His trembling voice told me something was wrong and I rushed home to the tragedy," she said. Manjunath and his younger sister, Dhanalakshmi, shocked by the events, refused to say anything.
Sugandhini Malatesh, their neighbour in Srikanteshwaranagar, said the old couple fought often but the clashes never reached this level. "They lived on the first floor and rented out the ground floor," she said.
According to Manjunath's wife Pavithra, her in-laws had asked her to visit her mother's home in Peenya in the morning. "They were arguing and after my husband left around 8am, I took my three-year-old son to my parents' house. I came to know about the tragedy only when my husband called me about it," she said.
The last words
Minutes before ending his life, Nanjappa called Devika, who works with a private hospital in Malleswaram. "I have kept all the gold inside a bag and you take it all. I may not call you again ever," he said, before ending the call.
Devika thought her father may have been miffed after one of his usual scraps with her mother and rushed home to check if all was well. When she reached the house around 11am, she saw the main door slightly open. She was shocked to find her mother lying dead in the hall and father hanging from the ceiling fan in the bedroom.
There was blood splattered all over the hall and the ragi ball stick too had blood stains. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Man-clubs-wife-to-death-hangs-himself/articleshow/21499519.cms
BANGALORE: A 64-year-old man clubbed his wife to death with a stick used to prepare ragi balls and then hanged himself in their residence near Mahalakshmi Layout on Tuesday morning. She was a private financier and entrepreneur and the couple often fought over her chit fund dealings and brusque way of recovering money.
Preliminary investigation revealed that a heated argument broke out between D Nanjappa Dasappa and Shashikala in the morning and he hit her on the head. "Shashikala, in her fifties, sustained serious skull injuries and died on the spot. Nanjappa panicked and hanged himself," deputy commissioner of police (North) Sandeep Patil said.
The couple is survived by son Manjunath and two married daughters, Devika and Dhanalakshmi.
Moolah rage?
Nanjappa Dasappa didn't like his wife Shashikala doing the money-lending business. And Shashikala allegedly taunted her husband that the family was prosperous, thanks to her business.
He spoke to daughter before ending life
Manjunath Nanjappa teaches mathematics at Christ University.
Nanjappa is a former ITI employee. Close relatives told police that Nanjappa didn't like his wife being in the money-lending business. He was upset about the way she recovered money from debtors and chit fund deals with women in the neighbourhood and said it was unbecoming of their family. Shashikala also allegedly taunted her husband on how her business had made the family prosperous and he did not contribute anything, police were told.
Devika was in tears when she recalled her father's phone call around 10.30am. "His trembling voice told me something was wrong and I rushed home to the tragedy," she said. Manjunath and his younger sister, Dhanalakshmi, shocked by the events, refused to say anything.
Sugandhini Malatesh, their neighbour in Srikanteshwaranagar, said the old couple fought often but the clashes never reached this level. "They lived on the first floor and rented out the ground floor," she said.
According to Manjunath's wife Pavithra, her in-laws had asked her to visit her mother's home in Peenya in the morning. "They were arguing and after my husband left around 8am, I took my three-year-old son to my parents' house. I came to know about the tragedy only when my husband called me about it," she said.
The last words
Minutes before ending his life, Nanjappa called Devika, who works with a private hospital in Malleswaram. "I have kept all the gold inside a bag and you take it all. I may not call you again ever," he said, before ending the call.
Devika thought her father may have been miffed after one of his usual scraps with her mother and rushed home to check if all was well. When she reached the house around 11am, she saw the main door slightly open. She was shocked to find her mother lying dead in the hall and father hanging from the ceiling fan in the bedroom.
There was blood splattered all over the hall and the ragi ball stick too had blood stains. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Man-clubs-wife-to-death-hangs-himself/articleshow/21499519.cms
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