Suspecting illicit relationship, a 36-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her husband at Damkheda in the morning on Monday. Kolar police arrested the accused and recovered sharp-edged weapon used in murder.
The deceased, Shyama Bai, was stabbed multiple times by her husband Shobharam before she died at her house.
She was taken to Shree Vinayak hospital where she was declared dead.
Locals informed the police and acting swiftly, the accused husband was nabbed. The deceased used to work as domestic help. This was her second marriage after her first husband’s death.
The accused husband works as labourer and from the initial days of marriage, he was suspicious over the activities of the deceased and had frequent fights with her.
During the investigation in the night on Sunday, the two had a fight after the deceased returned late in the night and she was beaten brutally.
In the morning on Monday accused again started fight while she was on her work and reached a house where she works and when the accused stopped her she told accused to stop fight and went inside the house and following her accused went in the house and stabbed her multiple times.
The house owner rushed for her help after the deceased alerted for help.
The police rushed to spot after the house owners informed police regarding the attack.
The body was sent for the post-mortem after the preliminary investigation and the police have registered a case under section 302 of the IPC and started further investigation.