BANGALORE
It was Ramesh Naik's temperamental attitude that allegedly prompted him to murder his in-laws, Saraswathi, 64, and Savitha, 24, on June 14 in Tumkur.
“Short-tempered, quixotic and emotional,” is how Sundari, 34, described her 48-year-old husband Ramesh Naik, who was arrested on Thursday for murdering his two children, sister-in-law and mother-in-law.
It was his temperamental attitude that allegedly prompted him to murder his in-laws, Saraswathi, 64, and Savitha, 24, on June 14 in Tumkur.
His anger soon gave way to remorse. Weighed down by guilt, Naik (pictured) decided to end his life after killing three more persons: his wife Sundari, and children, Bhuvan Raj, 10, and Krithika, 4.
Professional commitment saved Sundari; but the two children were not that fortunate. Naik allegedly took the children away in his car from their house in Mangalore. The bodies of the children were found in a well on June 16 at Ardhamoole in Panaje police limits. Naik hailed from Panaje in Puttur.
“I received a call from my husband on Thursday. He asked me to end my life,” a grieving Sundari said from her house in Jeppu. Naik also told her that he had killed Saraswathi, Savitha and the children. He did not hide his intention of committing suicide from his wife.
Reconstructing the events, police said a triangular love affair resulted in the serial killing. Naik was employed with the Punjab National Bank in Solapur. He had been coveting Savitha, who in turn, was reportedly in love with a Tumkur native, Mohan.
The lovers were planning to get married this September. On the night of June 14, Naik went to their house and reportedly asked Saraswathi to prevent her daughter from seeing Mohan.
Saraswathi, who knew of Naik’s intentions, did not yield to his demand. Enraged, he tied up the mother and daughter, and threw them into the sump.
Naik was living alone in Solapur. The slain women were living in his house at Kumte Layout, in Tumkur, where the crime took place.
It has been alleged that Naik had asked Mohan to stay away from Savitha and threatened him – albeit unsuccessfully – with dire consequences if he continued seeing Savitha.
After the murder, Naik left for Mangalore, where Sundari has been working as a clerk in the State Bank of Mysore. He asked her to accompany him to Panaje.
Sundari, however, could not accompany her husband. Instead, she went to work – and lived to tell the tale. Their children went with Naik, oblivious of their real destination.
Residents, who found the children’s bodies, told the police that they had seen the kids with Naik near the well. When the police knocked at the door of a hotel where he had checked in, Naik was preparing to commit suicide.
“Ramesh is co-operating with the police. He has confessed to the crime, saying he has nothing more left to do in life,” assistant superintendent of police (Puttur) Amit Singh said.
Police produced the accused before a court, which remanded him in judicial custody till July 3.
Panaje Subbaiah Naik, a relative of the accused, said Naik had enticed a girl to elope with him when he was 19. But his parents intervened, and with the help of his teachers, defeated his designs.
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