In a very rare incident in IT city Bengaluru on Friday, a wife chased her husband in the public glare and shot at him over altercation. The husband was seriously injured. The couple had lunch and alcohol in a hotel on the outskirts of the city and soon arguments started over the wedding of their daughter.
The woman is alleged to have pumped three rounds of bullets into her husband’s stomach. The husband stubled out and boarded a bus. However, the wife chased him in an SUV and pulled him out of the bus and attacked him again. Soon the police came to the rescue of the husband and admitted him to a private hospital. The lady has been arrested.
According to the police, 52-year-old Hamsa shot her husband Sai Ram MR, the CEO of a facilities and property management firm, at the Veerasandra Signal on Hosur Road near Electronics City around 5 pm on Friday.
The couple resides at Royal Placid layout in Haralur at HSR layout 2nd Sector. The couple had allegedly got into an argument at the restaurant. They are said to have continued fighting even after they got into their car.
The police said, the husband punched the wife in her face and continued driving. When Hamsa started screaming, Sai Ram is said to have tried to get out of the vehicle to board a BMTC bus to get home.
However, Hamsa took the revolver from the car’s glove compartment and shot at him in the chest and stomach even before he could get out of the car. As the jurisdiction comes under the Bengaluru Rural police limits, the woman will be given to their custody for further investigations. The woman too was subjected to medical treatment as she had scars on her face.
The incident took place on the outskirts of Bengaluru, while the couple was returning home after a visit to Hosur in Tamil Nadu. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police (Bengaluru subdivision) MB Boralingaiah after the preliminary investigation it was found that the couple had arguments intermittently over the last few days about their daughter’s wedding.
“On Friday, while returning from Hosur, about 40 km from Bengaluru, they stopped at Chandapur on the way and had lunch in a restaurant. They also consumed alcohol, and had another round of bickering over their daughter’s wedding” the officer said .
According to the police Hamsa initially said she had opened fire in self-defence after her husband assaulted her in the car.