Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jan 14: A city-based advocate was shot at and killed in the city on Friday January 13. In a curious incident, the woman who reportedly was the eyewitness to the episode and who rushed him to the hospital after being shot at, committed suicide later in the day. Illicit relationship is said to be the reason for this murder. A case about this incident was registered in Soladevanahalli station.

Reportedly, the woman in question was the advocate's paramour, and the persons who fired at the advocate were her husband and father-in-law. Although it is said that both the killers surrendered to the police thereafter, this news is yet to be confirmed by the police.

The advocate happened to be Amit (32) residing at MEI Layout at Hesaraghatta here, while the lady was Shruti Gowda (28), resident of Kaggalipura here, and working as panchayat development officer of Gollahalli gram panchayat. Shruti's husband, Rajesh, and her father-in-law, Gopalakrishna, have been taken into custody and being interrogated. Actual cause behind the rivalry is still being probed, police personnel stated.

Amit and Shruti, who met near Acharya College here on Friday afternoon, were talking to each other inside a car when Gopalakrishna came there and fired at Amit's chest with his licensed revolver. Shruti then rushed Amit to a private hospital but Amit did not live for long thereafter. Shruti had gone missing after admitting Amit into hospital, and the doctors who tried to inform her about Amit's death, contacted police after not finding her. Policemen identified the woman on the basis of CCTV footage of Saptagiri hospital, but soon they got information about the suicide of a woman in a nearby lodge and found that Shruti had ended her life there.

Amit, who stayed with wife and child at Hesaraghatta, was the son of senior advocate, Keshavamurty, who happens to be president of the Nelamangala Bar Association. It is being said that Shruti's relationship outside her marriage had raised a storm in her family, and the family members had warned her to mend her ways.