Man beheads wife in Huliyurdurga, arrested

TUMAKURU: A woman was murdered in the most gruesome manner by her husband who beheaded her and skinned the body in the kitchen of their house at Hosapete in Huliyurdurga town on Monday night. The man has since been arrested.

The husband was arrested on Tuesday for the wife’s brutal murder.

Shivakumar, who works at a saw mill had got married to Pushpa, who hailed from Sagar taluk on Shivamogga district and the couple have an eight-year-old child. They were living in a rented house in Huliyurdurga and would often quarrel, it is said.

On Monday night, the couple again quarrelled over some issue when Shivakumar brutally killed Pushpa. The Huliyurdurga police have arrested Shivakumar on Tuesday morning and taken up further investigation. Police Superintendent Ashok Kumar also visited the crime scene.