Overview
- Police say the killing took place at the victim’s parental home on Sunday evening when the husband lured her to a reconciliation attempt and stabbed her repeatedly in front of their two children and her mother.
- Investigators recovered a selfie video the accused recorded before the attack in which he warned he would kill his wife if she refused to return and said his betting habit had ruined the family.
- Mahadevapura police traced and arrested the accused after he initially fled and attempted self-harm, and they have registered a murder case while the body has been sent for post-mortem.
- Reports and police statements say the couple had been married about 15 years, the victim had been living separately and filed for divorce, and the husband had heavy losses of roughly Rs 7–8 lakh from online betting that fed repeated quarrels.
- The children and extended family are traumatized, the daughter sustained a minor injury trying to intervene, and investigators will examine the video and forensic evidence to establish motive and sequence of events for prosecution.