Bengaluru: Furious with wife for speaking on mobile, man kills her

BENGALURU: A 26-year-old man allegedly slit his wife’s throat for speaking on mobile phone late Saturday night in Tavarekere, on the outskirts of Bengaluru.
Raghukiran was arrested by Bengaluru Rural police on Sunday for the murder of his wife Sushmitha.
Around 9pm on Saturday, a drunk Raghukiran came back home after work and saw his wife speaking over phone. He asked her to hang up but Sushmitha said she was attending an important call.Enraged, Raghukiran went into the kitchen, brought out a knife and slit Sushmitha’s throat.
Around 9.15pm, Raghukiran walked to his brother Ravikiran’s house and told the latter he had killed his wife. Ravi rushed to help Sushmitha but by then she was dead. Nandagudi police have registered a murder case based on a complaint from Sushmitha’s mother Shivamma.
The couple had fallen in love and tied the knot seven years ago. They have two children, aged 4 and 2. “Raghukiran owned a shop. He suspected Sushmitha was having an affair and the duo had fought over mobile phone usage earlier as well,” Ravi said.