Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Apr 20: It is gathered that a person named Sharanappa (45), a resident of Derebail Borugudde, Kavoor, stabbed his wife repeatedly to death with a knife at around 3 am on Saturday, April 20. As per information gathered by the police from the locals, he had often expressed suspicion about the character of his wife, Manjula (38).

In his complaint, neighbour of the deceased, Satish Ameen from Borugudde, said that he heard loud noise from the house of Sharanappa early morning today. He came out and saw from the window that Sharanappa was repeatedly stabbing his wife, Manjula, who was lying on a cot, with a knife. He was also shouting at his wife that he wanted her to die.

When Ameen called out his name, Sharanappa threw the knife on the cot and ran away from the door. Excessive bleeding from the chest and abdomen region of the victim was observed.

A case of murder stands registered in Kavoor police station. The body of the victim was sent for postmortem. The police are searching for the accused.