A couple of years back, a Techie
was arrested in Bangalore. Charge: Premeditated murder of his wife of just a few
months. This is how it happened.
The techie, belonging to an
orthodox family, married a girl from Chennai.
The Techie was also a Tamil, working in Bangalore, and his package was
Rs.24,00,000/- per annum. The couple
started their life on a very happy note.
Mother-in-law showered so much love and affection on the girl that the
girl wanted mother-in-law to stay with them but she gently refused in order not
to disturb their happiness and privacy.
On that fateful day, the girl was talking over phone to her parents –
She was all praise for her mother-in-law, when the Calling bell rang. She cut the phone saying she would call back.
That was around 1130am. At around
0730pm, the girl’s parents got a call from their son-in-law, the techie, saying
the girl was killed by robbers. The
parents immediately started to Bangalore by Road. By the time they reached their house, the
body was taken for Post-mortem and the whole family was grief-stricken. The girl’s parents did not know whether to
control themselves or console the inconsolable son-in-law or the crying
mother-in-law. The girl was hit with a
strong wooden pole behind the head and there were traces of chilli powder on
her face. Her Mangal-sutra was missing
along with some other bangles and jewels.
After two days, the Police
arrested the Techie for premeditated murder.
There were so many clues pointing to the complicity of the Techie. The door was not forced open or broken. Nobody had seen any outsiders coming or going
out of the flat. The murder had taken
place between 1100 to 1300hrs, according to the Post-mortem report. There were two cups on the Dining table and plastic
containers of Coffee and Sugar were seen near the gas stove. So the police had come to the conclusion that
the visitor, who had rang the calling bell at around 1130am when the girl was
talking to her parents over phone, must have been a known person. Other rooms and almirahs were not all touched
by the so called robbers. Last, the
police got the information only at 0830pm whereas the parents of the girl got
the message got the message at 0730pm.
The police asked the Techie
why there was a delay of 1 hours between the two calls. Techie told them he was confused and
perplexed on seeing his wife killed by someone so he did not know what to
do. But the Police did not buy this
theory. After two days of the incident,
they enquired the techie where was he on that day of the murder. He promptly replied that he was at his
office, which was around 20 Kms from the flat and he reached office by 1000hrs
and came out of office only at 0600hrs.
Police went to his office for
further inquiry. In the office, they
came to know that the entrance is having a CCTV camera and the recordings were
kept in storage for a period of 1 month.
They called for the footages of the day of the murder. The Techie entered into his office exactly at
0958hrs, as he had told the police. When
they fast-forwarded it, the footage also showed that the Techie left the office
at 0600pm. Suddenly one Police Officer
got suspicious and wanted to see the entry and exit once again. Then the techie
was caught. The Techie entered into the
Office wearing a light yellow color shirt but on exit he was wearing a Blue
color shirt. Then they patiently saw the
whole recording. Our Techie left the
office at 1100hrs with the light yellow shirt and entered back with a Blue
shirt at around 1300hrs. When questioned
by the Police with this evidence, he confessed to have committed the
murder.
But, what was the motive?
The Techie was in love with
another lady, working in his same office, but his parents never approved of
their love. The lady in his office was
so sincere in her love that she even got permission from her husband for their
love and marriage afterwards. Yes, the
lady in his office was already married to someone else. When the lady came to know about the marriage
proposal, she got angry and protested to the Techie. Our Techie, who is a decent. God-fearing,
always-do-gooder, did not want to hurt anyone.
So, he told the lady that he would marry the girl from Chennai, and
after sometime, he and the lady could get some on-shore assignment and settle
at US, leaving the girl to her fate. The
lady also agreed to this proposal.
But immediately after the
marriage, the girl’s parents wanted to register the marriage and include the
name in the Passport, for which the Techie was not agreeing. He postponed the registration telling various
reasons. By the time, the lady also got
suspicious of his intentions and got pregnant through the Techie. Then she threatened the Techie that if he got
their marriage registered , then she will expose the whole truth to his family.
So the Techie decided to
finish his wife and settle at US with the lady.
On that day, he came back home at around 1130hrs and when his surprised
wife asked what’s the reason, he was reported to have told her some romantic
reasons. When he asked for some coffee,
she went into the kitchen to make coffee when he threw chili powder on her
face. She was confused and thought it
was some practical joke and went to the wash-basin to wash her face. Suddenly the Techie hit her with a wooden
pole from behind. He was not experienced
so it required a few more hits on the head.
When she fell down, he removed her jewels she was wearing and changed
his blood-soaked shirt, hid it in the bed-room and locked the house and went
back to office.
Now, the problem is who is at
guilty. The Techie who loved a lady who
was already married, the parents who refused to accept the love affair of the
son, the lady who deliberately got pregnant after the Techie’s marriage to
threaten him into submission: Who is
guilty?
Psychologically speaking, we
tend to cover-up the mistakes committed by our children: OK Don’t let others
know this. This breeds a mentality
wherein children start to think that if it is a mistake, others should
not know it. As they grow, the
belief changes into a pervert form:
If others don’t know, then it is not a mistake.
In this case, the Techie is
not afraid of marrying a lady who was already married to someone else. The only problem was he did not want his
family and relatives to know about this.
The parents of the Techie did not admonish the Techie for loving a
married lady, if at all they considered it to be a taboo, but did not want it
to be known to others. The lady did not
bother about dismantling two marriages: One, her own and the other, the Techie’s. All is fair in Love & War. Is it so?
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