Mangalore: Missing Man Found Murdered - Police Arrest Wife, Daughter

Pics: Spoorthi Ullal
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Mar 9: Ashok, who was working as security guard at MLA K Abhaychandra Jain’s home, and had gone missing since December 6, 2010, and, as it now transpires, was murdered by his wife whom he had married after a love affair.

At a press meet held at Mangalore on Friday March 9, city police commissioner, Seemanth Kumar Singh, said that Moodbidri police, who were investigating a missing complaint filed by Chandravathi on December 7, 2010 about the mysterious disappearance of her husband K Ashok, have now found that Ashok had been killed by Chandravathi herself.

He said police questioning has revealed that she was helped by her daughter, Ashwini, in disposing off Ashok's mortal remains. Both Ashwini and Chandravathi, who have been arrested, were presented before the media persons at the press meet.

Singh profusely praised the policemen for achieving this breakthrough in the case. The press meet was attended by various police officers.

Ashok, who had worked as a sergeant in Home Guards, had formed his own security agency, and was popular in providing security-related services. He also used to offer services to catch serpents, to rescue people during fire accidents, or when people drowned. He was also known to serve weak and old people without seeking anything in return.

It is said that the Ashok and his wife fought over some issue after Ashok came home after his duty hours that day. After Ashok had tea and went to bed, Chandravathi mulled the desirability of finishing off her husband, and revealed what was in her mind to her daughter. But Ashwini (22), her daughter, opposed her idea, it is said. After Ashwini went out, Chandravathi, the police say, dropped the smaller stone cylinder of the traditional grinding stone on the head of her sleeping husband. She then cut his body into pieces, disposed of these pieces in an out-of-use leech pit of the toilet, and burnt them down.

When her son, Eashayna, came home after college, Chandravathi told him that his father had been taken away by some persons who claimed themselves to be from Bangalore. After a couple of days, she also filed a missing complaint with the police. In this connection, the policemen had summoned her and other family members twice, and questioned them, but they could not smell anything fishy then.

After about three weeks of Ashok’s murder, Chandravathi reportedly threw away half burnt body pieces of her husband into River Sita.