Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)
Kundapur, Jan 4: The district and sessions court here has found that charge levelled against Shankarnarayana Hebbar (48) from Byndoor Ganganadu has been proved. The case pertains to death of two children on account of poisoning, and this incident reportedly had links with love affair of their father.
The final hearing took place in the district and sessions court here on Thursday, January 3.
On account of his attraction towards another woman, Shankaranarayana Hebbar had fed poison to his two children and wife, before attempting suicide on October 16, 2016. In this incident, his two children, Ahswin Kumar Hebbar (15) and Aishwarya Laxmi Hebbar (13), both students of government pre-university college at Byndoor, had died. Shankaranarayana Hebbar and his wife, Mahalaxmi, had survived.
Shankaranarayana Hebbar
A death note written by Shankaranarayana Hebbar had proved that he was the one who had fed poison to his wife and children before consuming it himself. Six months before the incident, Hebbar had deserted his family and begun to live with his love interest. Two days before the said incident, the woman had cheated him, after which he had returned home. He had written in the death note that he wrote that himself, his wife and children had decided to kill themselves, and that his lover is the reason for these deaths. He also had expressed the desire that the bodies should not be removed till his lover arrives there and sees them.
Out of 43 witnesses listed, 17 were examined by the court. The accused and his wife were eyewitnesses for the incident. The then Byndoor police circle inspector, Raghava Padil, had filed charge sheet. District assistant public prosecutor, Prakashchandra Shetty, had represented the prosecution.
Judge of the court, Prakash Khanderi,has reserved order on sentencing of the guilty, to January 7. Assistant public prosecutor, Prakashchandra Shetty, said that the prosecution has demanded death sentence to the guilty. He felt that life term is almost sure in the case, and chance of awarding death sentence cannot be totally ruled out.