New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- A dentist allegedly killed his mother-in-law and cut her body into 19 parts with the help of his two accomplices in Koratagere in Karnataka's Tumakuru.

According to the police, Lakshmi Devi (42) was brutally murdered by her son-in-law, a dentist, Dr Ramachandrappa S, and his two accomplices.

Police said Ramachandrappa allegedly killed Lakshmi Devi because he had doubts over her character, causing embarrassment to him.

Tumakuru police had recovered the severed head of a woman and her partially decomposed, dismembered body pieces, found stuffed in multiple plastic bags, along the road at Kolala village in Koratagere.

On August 7, Koratagere police officials said seven covers with the woman's body parts stuffed were...