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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TN polls: TVK pushes DMK behind with leads in 83 seats, AIADMK ahead in 54
Chennai (PTI): New entrant TVK, led by actor-politician Vijay, was leading in as many as 83 constituencies on Monday when counting of votes polled in the April 23 Assembly polls was on across Tamil Nadu. The AIADMK was leading in 58 seats while the ruling DMK was ahead in 34, EC data showed.
About two hours after the postal ballots were counted and EVMs opened for multi-round counting, Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam surged ahead of its Dravidian rivals-- the DMK and the AIADMK, with the ruling party struggling to catch up.
If the trends maintain, Vijay could as well ensure the biggest electoral upset, something in lines with the "1967,1977" wins he had referred to in his campaign speeches.
While the Dravidian stalwart CN Annadurai brought the first non-Congress government in Tamil Nadu post-independence in 1967, the charismatic MG Ramachandran (MGR) installed the maiden AIADMK government 10 years later, unseating then DMK government under M Karunanidhi. TVK was leading in most Chennai segments, all considered DMK strongholds and currently represented by the party in the 234-member House.
A poor show by DMK could belie most exit polls giving an edge to it, riding on the number of populist measures Chief Minister M K Stalin had implemented in his five year "Dravidian model," inclusive governance.
According to EC and TV reports, 15 cabinet ministers, including Stalin were trailing. His son and deputy CM Udhayanidhi was also behind in his incumbent Chepauk-Tirvuvallikeni seat, according to a number of reports.
Stalin was trailing behind TVK's VS Babu by 1234 votes in Kolathur segment. Vijay was ahead in Tiruchirappalli East by over 3,000 votes at the end of two rounds of counting, according to EC data.
BJP is trailing in 26 constituencies and it is ahead in Thali segment alone. TVK is ahead in constituencies including Ponneri, Tiruvallur, Poonamalle, and Avadi.
AIADMK is leading in segments including Katpadi, and Guidyattam and party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami is ahead in Edappadi segment by 7003 votes.
DMK was leading in segments including Vellore, Anaikattu and Rishivandiyam.
