India, Nov. 6 -- A 52-year-old man in Bengaluru has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife and six members of her family, including a child, and disposing of the bodies in different parts of Karnataka over a period of 15 to 20 days, police said on Friday.

S Indushekar, a cab driver, is suspected of killing Sunitha, his wife of around two decades, as part of a series of killings that investigators believe began around October 16 over a dispute that appears to be the result of her frequent visits to her mother's home in the same city, police said.

Indushekar is also accused of murdering Sunitha's mother, Roopavathi; her brothers, Shivakumar and Shankar; their wives, Divya and Nalini; and Shivakumar's seven-year-old son.

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