BHUBANESWAR/BENGALURU: Mukti Ranjan Ray, prime suspect in Bengaluru’s Mahalakshmi murder case through which the sufferer’s physique was chopped into “59 items”, had deliberate to eliminate the stays after two-three months, his youthful brother Satya claimed after 30-year-old allegedly died by suicide Wednesday in Odisha, experiences Debabrata Mohapatra.
Mukti and Mahalakshmi (29), who was separated from her husband, labored collectively in a clothes outlet in a Bengaluru mall.The 2 had been in a relationship, with Mahalakshmi insisting that their ties culminate in marriage, resulting in friction between the 2, in line with Mukti’s brother Satya. “My brother instructed me that he strangled her (Mahalakshmi) to demise following a scuffle on September 3… At night time, he chopped her physique and stashed the items within the fridge,” Satya mentioned.
“Many instances, she had bodily assaulted me for not agreeing to marry… I used to be bored with her atrocities. So, I killed her,” police mentioned, quoting from the observe present in Mukti’s diary. Police suspect Mukti took the acute step fearing arrest. Bengaluru cops had been tenting in Odisha for the previous few days to nab him. In line with Satya, Mahalakshmi incessantly demanded cash and jewelry. “She was torturing him. Lately, the 2 of them had gone to Kerala the place they’d an altercation, following which she instructed police that my brother had kidnapped her. My brother was crushed up by police earlier than they launched him,” Satya mentioned. Satya, whose assertion was recorded by Bengaluru cops, claimed Mukti ended his life out of guilt.
