Musuru: The police broke the Mandya case where a woman, her three children and nephew were killed on the night of Intervening February 5 and 6.
The first cousin of a woman who was allegedly having an affair with her husband had been arrested.
On February 6, Lakshmi, 37, three children – Komala, 8, Raj, 10, and Kunal, 6 – Lakshmi Govinda’s nephew, 13, was found killed at his home in Krishna King Sagar.
Police suspicion fell on the first cousin of Lakshmi’s father, also called Lakshmi, who lives in Mysuru.
After questioning him, the police came out with details that spun around the affair that cousins had with Lakshmi’s husband who had now died, a gangaram, a trader in plastic goods.
He was not home at the night of the murder.
The police said his wife knew about Gangaram’s affair and told him not to meet his cousin.
Gangaram avoided the defendant’s meeting, which seemed to have made him angry.
Cousins tried to sow a dispute between husband and wife by making an anonymous call.
When things were unsuccessful, he was suspected of planning to eliminate Gangaram’s wife, police said.
On February 5, Lakshmi called her cousin Mysuru to her house.
They have an argument about their affair until 2 am on February 6.
The defendant, who was allegedly intended to kill his cousin, carried a hammer and blade of the butcher with him.
He has borrowed a knife from the butcher in Mysuru.
After returning home, he cleaned the knife and returned it to him.
After Lakshmi retired to bed, his cousin allegedly hit his head with a hammer which made him unconscious.
He then smothered him to death with a pillow.
Deputy Srirangapatna SP S Sandesh Kumar said he killed children because they woke up in a hearing.
He spent almost two hours at home and went to Mysuru on a bus.
On the night of the murder, the defendant’s husband was in Tamil Nadu and his two children were at home in Mysuru, he said.
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