UDUPI: The Udupi DCIB police have arrested the associate professor of Community Medicine in the Hassan Medical College, for murdering his wife by injecting her with poison. Five others who abetted the doctor in his act were also arrested. They are Harish, driver in the Hassan medical college, Niranjan Raj Aras, a private computer operator and document writer, Paramesh, LLB student, Basarvarj, lorry driver and Manjunath, the college clerk.
Interrogations of the arrested have revealed that Suresh who had conspired to eliminate his wife since long was however successful in his third attempt.
Prabhu had married Bhagirathi (35), a nurse in Hassan District Government Hospital, ten years ago, following a love affair. But there was rift in the family a year after the marriage following which Suresh conspired to kill his wife.
Police said he killed his wife by injecting her with poison by parking his Maruti Omni near Tenkura in Belanje village near Hebri on January 7. Though they had started from Hassan along with their daughter and Bhagirathi’s brother’s daughter Akshatha, the girl was dropped at Koppa and their daughter at Shimoga and the couple were driving towards Udupi when he chose to eliminate Bhagirathi.
Later he saw to it that a false complaint was registered in Hebri station that she died of snake bite while he was changing the tyre of his car.
The Udupi SP had handed over the investigation into this case to Ganesh M Hegde, Inspector in District Crime Investigation Bureau after relatives of Bhagirathi suspected the cause of her death.
The killer doctor was arrested near Dharmasthala. During interrogations Prabhu revealed that he had earlier attempted twice to kill his wife and the third attempt was successful. As planned he had gathered snake poison from a snake charmer and had injected it to Bhagirathi.
A cash prize of Rs 30,000 has been announced to the police team that busted the mystery behind the case.
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