Bengaluru: In a grisly incident, a man stabbed his wife and her mother on Pipeline Road in RPC Layout under Vijayanagar police limits on Monday. The victims – Vasantha, 34, and her mother Leelamma, 61 – were stabbed multiple times before their throats were slit, the police said.

The accused, Kumar, came to the police station and surrendered himself after committing the crime. He told the police that he killed his wife suspecting her fidelity. The incident occurred around 5.30 pm on Monday when Vasantha came to her mother's house in RPC Layout after a quarrel with her husband. He followed her and was armed with a butcher's knife to carry out the crime, the police said.

Kumar owns an eatery, Kolimane, on the ground floor of a building on the 14th Main, RPC Layout in Attiguppe, Vijayanagar. His house is on the first floor. His mother-in-law's house is close to the couple's residence, the police said. They were married for 12 years and had two children, 10-year-old daughter Inchara and five-year-old son Tejas Gowda. But he kept suspecting his wife's fidelity and this led to frequent quarrels between them.

A family source said that it was Kumar who was wayward in his character. The couple also had a branch of Kolimane restauarant in Chandra Layout which was managed by Vasantha, the police said. "We are probing the murder from all angles," a senior police officer said.



Sources from the victims' family said that Kumar was forcing Vasantha to sell a plot of land that was in her name, but she had refused. They suspected that this could be the reason behind the murders.

Vasantha went to her mother's house in the morning, while Kumar reached there in the afternoon. He picked up a quarrel with his wife and stabbed her. When his mother-in-law rushed to rescue Vasantha, he also knifed her. After killing the two, Kumar rode his scooter to the police station and surrendered.

Vasantha's sister Lakshmi, who went to her mother's house in the evening, found the two lying in a pool of blood and called the Vijayanagar police station, where Kumar was narrating the incident, a police officer said.