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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Rupee hits all-time low for second time in a week
Mumbai (PTI): The rupee depreciated 31 paise to settle at 91.99 against the US dollar on Wednesday, touching the lowest closing level for the second time in less than a week, amid increased month-end demand for the greenback.
Forex traders said the rupee opened higher as the US dollar index softened and a long-awaited trade breakthrough with Europe offered quiet reassurance. However, increased month-end demand for the American currency as well as the ongoing geopolitical tensions dented investors' sentiments.
At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 91.60 and touched an early high of 91.50, but pared all the gains to touch an intra-day low of 91.99 against the greenback.
The domestic unit settled 31 paise down, revisiting its lowest-ever closing level of 91.99 against the greenback. The Indian currency previously ended at this level on January 23 when it also hit its all-time intraday low of 92 against the US dollar.
On Tuesday, the rupee rebounded from its all-time low levels and gained 22 paise to close at 91.68 against the US dollar.
Analysts said the rupee opened higher as the US dollar index softened and a long-awaited trade breakthrough with Europe bolstered investor sentiment.
India and the European Union on Tuesday announced the conclusion of negotiations for the free trade agreement (FTA), under which a number of domestic sectors such as apparel, chemicals and footwear will get duty-free entry into the 27-nation bloc, while the EU will get access to the Indian market at concessional duty for cars and wines, an official said.
The deal has been dubbed the "mother of all deals" as it will create a market of about 2 billion people.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.07 per cent lower at 96.14.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, was trading 0.43 per cent lower at USD 67.28 per barrel in futures trade.
On the domestic equity market front, Sensex jumped 487.20 points to settle at 82,344.68, while Nifty surged 167.35 points to 25,342.75.
Foreign Institutional Investors turned net buyers and purchased equities worth Rs 480.26 crore on Wednesday, according to exchange data.
