Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (RJP)
Bengaluru, Sep 23: The Karnataka High Court has upheld the decision of the lower court in awarding death penalty to a bank manager convicted of killing his two children, mother-in-law and sister-in-law.
Ramesh Naik, a former manager at Punjab National Bank was married to Sundari, a manager in a cooperative bank. The couple had a 10 year-year-old son Bhuvan and three and a half year old daughter Krithika. Ramesh who worked in the bank in Solapur was transferred to Mangaluru.
Ramesh had helped his sister-in-law Savitha to get a job in Bengaluru. He had an affair with her and was enraged when she became close to her colleague. When he went to meet her in Tumkuru, the duo had a fight. In a fit of rage he killed Savitha and her mother Saraswathi and dumped their bodies in a lake and returned to Mangaluru.
Upon returning home, he told his children that he will be taking them to his home town. He drowned his children in a lake in Panaje in Puttur taluk.
He then booked a room in the lodge with an intention to commit suicide. However, Sundari upon returning home found children to be missing and lodged a missing complaint. The cops upon investigation came to know the details of Ramesh through car driver Kripakar. Ramesh then confessed for committing four murders.
Public prosecutor Vijaykumar Majage told the court that Naik had no remorse for the murders. He has also given death threats to the case witness when he was in jail. A division bench of Justices Ravi Malimath and John Michael D'Cunha confirmed the death sentence on Friday.
The murders were committed on June 15, 2010 in Tumakuru and on the next day in Panaje.
Puttur sessions court had convicted and sentenced Ramesh for his children's murder on December 3, 2013.