Male nurse arrested for killing colleague over relationship dispute in Bengaluru
BENGALURU: A 25-year-old male nurse has been arrested for allegedly killing his 39-year-old female colleague at Umarbagh Layout in Kumaraswamy Layout. According to the police, the victimMamathaand the accused C Sudhakarwere in a relationship for the last one year. While Mamatha has been a staff nurse at Jayadeva Hospital for the last one year, Sudhakar has been working as a senior staff nurse at the same hospital. Sudhakar had recently gotten engaged to another woman. Mamatha forced him to call off the engagement and marry her. She even threatened to die by suicide by writing his name along with the names of his parents in the death note. 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. Mamatha was staying with her friend Shruthi. 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. Mamatha called me on Wednesday evening, asking me to keep the keys near the door, as she would be reaching home around 10.30pm. On Thursday morning, Shruthi called me to check if Mamatha had kept the keys near the door, as she was not answering the phone. When I went there, Mamatha did not open the door. When I checked through the window, I saw her lying in a pool of blood, the house owner told the media. The police, who checked Mamathas 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 Mamathas house. They then picked him up from his residence and questioned him, following which he confessed to having killed her. The accused told the police that he was not aware of the victims age when he was in love with her. Only after knowing that she was much older than him, he started distancing himself from her. The victim was working as the nurse for the last one year, said the police. The Kumaraswamy Layout police have registered a case of murder.
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