Bengaluru, Nov. 6 -- In a shocking incident, a cab driver allegedly killed seven members of his wife's family, including a seven-year-old boy, over domestic disputes in the city, with police suspecting that the killings took place over the last 15 to 20 days, officials said on Friday.
The accused, identified as Indusekar alias Sekar, allegedly committed the murders at his house in the Rajajinagar police station limits and disposed of the bodies at different locations across Karnataka.
The accused has been taken into police custody and is being questioned about the locations where the bodies were disposed of. The police have recovered the child's body following an extensive search near Nandi Hills and launched a search for the remaining six.
"This was not some stray incident. It was an act carried out by an individual who appears to have meticulously planned the murders of his own relatives," Home minister Priyank Kharge told reporters.
The reasons behind the killings were yet to be fully established, he said.
Bengaluru Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh said a missing-person complaint was registered at Srirampura police station on November 3, following which the investigation revealed the alleged murders. The case was subsequently converted into a murder case and registered at Rajajinagar police station.
According to the police, the seven victims were identified as Sunita, the accused's wife, his mother-in-law Rupavathi; Shivakumar and Shankar, his brothers-in-law; Divya and Nalini, the wives of Shivakumar and Shankar respectively; and Shivakumar and Divya's seven-year-old son Puneeth. "According to the accused's statement, he had murdered seven of his relatives, including his wife," Singh said.
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