Karkala : In yet another gruesome murder reported from the district, a man hacked his wife to death and then hanged himself at his house at Doopadakatte in Karkala taluk on June 20, Wednesday
The deceased are Jagannath Poojary (40) and his wife Malini Shetty (35).
It is learnt, Malini, a divorcee and a mother of two boys aged 11 and 14 had married Jagannath after falling in love with him when she worked for a beauty parlour at Kapikad and Jagannath was working in a nearby laundry.
The couple had tied the knot at Dharmasthala and were staying in a rented house at Doopadakatte, The incident took place when the children had been to school. The exact cause of the incident is not known. The murder and the suicide came to light when a man who had tied his cock in front of Jagannath’s house, knocked at the doors and later peeped through the window to find Malini lying in a pool of blood.
According to reports, the couple had a quarrel at Malini’s parental home where they had been for the uttarakriya of Malini’s father who had died a few days ago.
Investigations are in progress..