Man kills wife and daughter, enters police station with bloodied knife

BANGALORE: Cops at the Rajajinagar police station went into a tizzy around 4pm on Monday as a 35-year-old tailor walked in with a bloodied knife.
“I have killed my wife and elder daughter. I did not want to touch the child, but polio had left her with a deformed leg. Who would take care of her if I go to jail after killing my wife? So I killed her too,” Kumar Nayak told the policemen.Along with Nayak, when policemen rushed to his house in Rajajinagar IV Block, they found the bodies of Manjula, 26, and Harshitha, 6, in a pool of blood. Kumar had slit their throats with a kitchen knife.
Police said Kumar, who planned the murders, had left his son, Chandan, 3, at a relative’s house nearby in the morning. Kumar told police he killed his wife because he suspected her fidelity. “We got married about 10 years ago and lived in my native Hunasekoppa in Magadi taluk. But Manjula’s behaviour was not good from the beginning. I would hear of her affairs everyday, so I shifted to Bangalore in 2009,” he said. Kumar opened his business near Bashyam Circle.
However, Kumar suspected that Manjula continued her affairs even after shifting to Rajajinagar. So, he planned to kill her. Neighbours though wouldn’t believe that the soft-spoken tailor would wield a knife on a woman and a child. Alamelamma, a neighbour, recalled how the couple had frequent fights. “Both were good persons, but would fight often. I cannot believe that he has murdered his wife; Kumar was a soft-spoken man,” she said.