Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Apr 26: Sharada, wife of Uday Naik, a resident of Shirur Hemmakki near Brahmavar, had died on Friday April 22. The policemen of Brahmavar station had taken Uday Naik into custody for interrogation, as his role was suspected in the murder. Reportedly, Uday smothered his wife, Sharada, to death, as she was not agreeable to hand over to him the deposit amounting toRs 35,000 standing in her name in a cooperative society.His father-in-law, Boopa Naika, had complained to the policemen that Uday had killed the former's daughter.

It is gathered that during interrogation, Naik confessed to the policemen that he had killed his first wife too. Due to his love affair with Lakshmi from Shirur Guddemane, she had become pregnant before marriage. Therefore, her brothers had performed Uday’s marriage with her in 2007. Uday, who suspected that Lakshmi had illicit relationship with others, is said to have pushed her from behind into a pond when she was washing clothes there. She drowned in the pond on November 14, 2007.

On November 24 the same year, he filed a missing complaint at Brahmavar police station. Her body was found from the pond on November 28. Uday had told the policemen then that Lakshmi had committed suicide, as she was frustrated at the death of her child within a week of delivery. The policemen, who had recorded this death as an accident, have registered a fresh case of murder based on the above confession.