Bengaluru: The 36-year-old private tech firm employee who killed his 32-year-old wife was taken into police custody on Wednesday. The Hulimavu police produced the accused, Rakesh Rajendra Khedekar, in the local court seeking his custody. The court remanded him to police custody for six days.
Rakesh was detained in Shirwal, Maharashtra, and brought to the city on March 29. He was produced before the magistrate and remanded in judicial custody. A senior officer said the investigating officer from Hulimavu police station questioned Rakesh on Wednesday after taking him into custody. Rakesh claimed to have killed his wife, Gouri Anil Sambrekar, in a fit of rage after she tried to attack him with a knife. Rakesh also claimed that she was dominating and often fought with him over trivial issues, and he was frustrated with her behaviour.
She couldn’t get along with his family and wanted to stay separately. “We will subject him to more interrogation and take him to the crime spot for mahazar (spot inspection); we will recreate the crime scene. His mobile phones have also been seized, and the experts are retrieving the data if he deleted any,” the senior officer said.
Rakesh is accused of stabbing Gouri with a knife and stuffing her body in a trolley suitcase on the night of March 26 at their rented house in Doddakammanahalli near Hulimavu. The next day, on his way to Pune, he consumed a small quantity of phenyl and cockroach killer near Shirwal. He was admitted to a local hospital. After his discharge, the police brought him to the city.