Bengaluru: Male nurse arrested for murdering colleague over relationship dispute
Bengaluru: Police have arrested a 25-year-old male nurse for allegedly murdering his 39-year-old colleague following a relationship dispute at Kumaraswamy Layout in south Bengaluru, The New Indian Express reported on Saturday.
The accused, C Sudhakar, and the victim, Mamatha, were both staff nurses at Jayadeva Hospital and had been in a relationship for the last one year, police reportedly said. While Mamatha had joined the hospital for the last one year, Sudhakar was working there as a senior staff nurse.
According to investigators, Sudhakar recently got engaged to another woman, following which Mamatha allegedly pressured him to call off the engagement and marry her. Police said she had also threatened to die by suicide and mentioned Sudhakar and his parents in a purported death note, which caused distress to the accused.
Frustrated over this, Sudhakar killed Mamatha by slitting her throat with a kitchen knife on Wednesday night. While Mamatha hailed from Hiriyur in Chitradurga district, Sudhakar is from Hassan and was staying in Banashankari 2nd Stage.
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Mamatha was home alone when the accused came to meet her. After killing her, he made it look like a case of robbery by taking away her chain. At around 11am on Thursday, the house owner reported the matter to the police.
According to the report, her house owner told the media that Mamatha had called him the previous evening asking him to keep the keys near the door as she would return home around 10.30 pm. The next morning, her roommate Shruthi asked the landlord to check on her, following which he found Mamatha lying in a pool of blood inside the house.
The police, who checked Mamatha’s call records, found that Sudhakar had repeatedly called her. They also checked the CCTV cameras in the vicinity and saw the movement of Sudhakar near Mamatha’s house. They then picked him up from his residence and questioned him, following which he confessed to having killed her.
Police said Sudhakar claimed he distanced himself from Mamatha after learning about the age difference between them, which allegedly led to repeated confrontations, police said.
The Kumaraswamy Layout police have registered a case of murder and are continuing further investigation.
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No development, corruption at peak in Karnataka, alleges BJP's Vijayendra
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka BJP president B Y Vijayendra on Saturday lashed out at the Siddaramaiah-led government, alleging that there was absolutely zero development in the state while corruption was at its peak.
He said the BJP would continue to "expose" the state government and its "failures".
Listing a series of issues, the BJP chief said the Congress dispensation headed by Siddaramaiah had failed on multiple fronts, be it the Dharmasthala issue, the hate speech Bill, the Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede incident, the liquor policy or corruption-related cases.
Speaking to reporters here, Vijayendra alleged that corruption in the state had increased. There was a detection of Rs 14.5 crore of wealth from Sarfaraz Khan, who is considered close to Housing Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan and is on deputation in the Karnataka Housing Department.
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He also referred to the alleged ST Development scam, which took place during the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
The Valmiki Development Corporation scam in Karnataka involved the misappropriation of around Rs 94 crore meant for Scheduled Tribes' welfare, with funds illegally transferred from Union Bank of India accounts to fake entities, implicating top officials, including former Minister Nagendra, in creating fake accounts and using funds for personal gain and elections.
"There is absolutely no development and there is highest level of corruption in Karnataka. There is zero progress and zero development,” he alleged.
Vijayendra further accused the state government of repeatedly blaming the Centre to “cover up its failures”, saying it claims that the central government is doing injustice to Karnataka.
Referring to the Hate Speech Bill passed by both Houses of the legislature in the recently concluded Assembly session in Belagavi, he alleged that the Siddaramaiah government was trying to suppress criticism and compared the move to the Emergency imposed in 1975 by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
"Why this hate speech bill? Because the Siddaramaiah government is unable to face the truth. They are trying to bring emergency. What happened in 1975 when Indira Gandhi brought emergency? the same policy has been followed by Siddaramaiah government. They are trying to attack media persons, they are also trying to stop social media users... They don't want any criticism," he said.
"We (BJP) are going to expose this Congress government, the failures of the Congress government, corruption of the Congress government. Corruption has gone to the peak," he alleged.
According to Vijayendra, investors were moving away from Karnataka due to what he termed the “anti-investor policies” of the state government.
Ather Electric scooters, Google and aerospace industries, which had earlier invested in Karnataka, were now moving away because of the state government’s "anti-investor policy".
"Youths are getting affected by this loss of employment. Inspite of this, nobody should question the state government. Is this democracy? Hence, we are questioning the state government and we want to expose this Congress government and its failures also," he added.
