Suspecting fidelity, history-sheeter stabs wife

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: In a barbaric incident, a man stabbed his wife on her private parts and abdomen after he suspected she was having an affair.

The incident took place in Adugodi Police Station limits on Sunday, following which the man was arrested. The accused has been identified as Dayananda, a history-sheeter at Ashoknagar Police Station who was lodged in Parappana Agrahara prison in Bengaluru.

He was released three ago, police said. Dayananda and the victim Priyanka have two children from wedlock.

According to the police, the accused was earlier arrested on charges of murder and the Ashoknagar police had opened a rowdysheet against him. On Sunday night Dayananda returned home in an inebriated state and got into an argument with his wife, accusing her of having an affair and spending too much time talking on the phone.

As the argument turned violent, he took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed his wife in front of the children.

As the woman started screaming, the accused fled the spot in panic. Neighbours came to her aid and alerted the jurisdictional police. Priyanka was rushed to the St John's Hospital, where his condition is critical, as per doctors.