Puttur, Aug 15: Fifth Additional District Sessions Court has convicted a husband and pronounced life time imprisonment for killing his wife.
The lifer is Karunakar Pataly from Ubaradka Mittoor of Sullia taluk.
The convicted had hacked his wife Aruna shree to death using a club.
Judge T J Shivashankare Gowda has in the order pronounced that Mr Pataly would have to serve additional punishment in case of failing to serve the jail.
What is commendable is the fact that public prosecutor K Shivaprasad Alva could provide circumstantial evidences to the Court despite the only witness to crime, neighbor Jayanthi turning hostile.
Aruna shree from Sonnangeri in Sullia was married to one Arun Kumar in 1994. From this marriage, Aruna Shree gave birth to one daughter and within five to six years of marriage, Arun Kumar discovered his wife's illegitimate relationship with one Mr Karunakar Pataly. Soon, Arun Kumar abandoned his wife, while keeping their daughter with him.
Within no time, Aruna Shree went on to live with her lover at Ubaradkar in Sullia and out of this relationship the couple had one daughter, without marriage.
While both the families objected to the two living together, they held talks and decided to get the two married off. Following this, Arunashree's family even transferred 10 cents land in her name. However, whenever the family would approach Karunakar to speak of marriage he would evade the topic. Slowly he started suspected Arunashree.
On February 21, 2011, Karunakar hacked Arunashree to death using a wooden club, She was four months pregnant then. Jayanthi, a neighbor had informed Aruna Shree's brother Vasanth Ram about the murder.
Sullia police arrested Karunakar and on Wednesday the Court convicted Karunakar in the case.
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