Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, Feb 21: A man who was service life sentence for the murder of his first wife, made good is escape from the prison only to kill his second wife.
Shankar (41), a native of Kolar is the convict, who killed his second wife Renuka (31), a native of Hassan in a brutal manner.
Cold blooded murderer Shankar showered all the love on his wife before killing her. He took her to the city and booked a lodge in Majestic area. Later he took Renuka out for shopping and bought her favourite things. On returning back to the lodge, he slit her throat and killed her. At present, Shankar is absconding and a team of Upparpet police of the city are behind him.
It is learnt through police sources that Shankar had married Renuka while he was out on parole earlier. Shankar escaped from the prison on February 16 and met Renuka in the afternoon on the same day. Both Shankar and Renuka took a room in a lodge in Majestic in the city. On February 18, both went out for shopping at around 11 am and returned to the lodge. On the evening of the same day, Shankar left the hotel. That is the last time the lodge people saw him.
The following day at around 8 pm, the sweeper of the lodge smelt something foul when he was cleaning the corridor near the room where the couple were put up. As there was no response after repeated knocks on the door, the staff of the hotel opened the door with a master key and found Renuka's body lying in a pool of blood and her throat slit.
The lodge authorities immediately informed Upparpet police station, who promptly reported to the spot and took the body for post mortem.
As per the details given by the police, Shankar was serving life sentence in the Parappana Agrahara prison for killing his first wife Mala in 2008. After serving 11 years, on the basis of his good conduct, on February 4, 2019, he was given the responsibility of a caretaker of patients from Parappana Agrahara prison in the Victoria Hospital of the city. Shankar disappeared from the hospital on February 16 and asked Renuka to join him at a lodge and murdered her in a barbaric manner. Meanwhile, the police were searching for the missing convict Shankar and duly filed a missing complaint in V V Puram police station.
The motive behind the murder of his second wife is not yet known.