Puttur: Man convicted of killing his children, in-laws in 2010
Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (DV)
Puttur, Nov 27: The fifth additional sessions court on Tuesday November 26 pronounced Ramesh Naik, a resident of Panaje Ardhamule as guilty of murdering his mother-in-law, sister-in-law and his two children in 2010.
At the time of the incident, he was a manager at a nationalised bank in Sholapur, Maharashtra. His wife Sundari was working for a bank in Mangalore.
In June 2010, Ramesh Naik who was on a visit to Mangalore, had taken his children Mohan Raj and Krithika to Panaje in Puttur and pushed them into a pond. He was contemplating suicide when the police nabbed him on June 16 that year from a lodge in Puttur.
During interrogation, he also confessed to murdering his mother-in-law Saraswati and sister-in-law Savita in Tumkur. Their bodies were recovered later.
It is said that on June 14, Naik, who had a rented house in Tumkur, fought with Saraswati and her 35-year-old daughter Savita, and murdered both of them by strangling them. Their bodies were dumped into a water tank of the house.
Ramesh Naik had looked after his sister-in-law since many years, and was planning to arrange her marriage. But Savita, who was employed in Bangalore, was involved in a love affair with another man, which Ramesh opposed. Ramesh was enraged at this development, and murdered Savita and her mother after a heated exchange of words. He then came to Mangalore on June 16, took his children to Panaje and drowned them.
The quantum of punishment will be announced soon.