Mumbai, August 14: In a case of cold-blooded murder, an Infosys HR manager was arrested for killing his wife.
Satish Kumar Gupta, working as a HR manager at Infosys office in Bangalore, confessed to the crime on Friday and was arrested by the Bangalore police.
Satish was produced before a magistrate and remanded to police custody.
Satish’s wife Priyanka, a DPS teacher, was found killed at her residence on Tuesday. Earlier, Satish tried to give it a case of robbery and murder but police zeroed-in on him following the call details.
Initially, the 32-year-old HR manager informed the police that he was out for jogging when the incident took police. He told police that he received a call from Priyanka that two persons had come to the house asking delivering newspapers.
In his complaint, he further said that after his return to the house door was locked from inside and there was no response. He went to his office and returned with duplicate key from his locker. Satish found Priyanka dead when he entered the house.
But when police traced his call details, they found a 40-second call from Priyanka and the tower was same while he told that he was jogging at RBI Layout ground, which has different tower.
When Satish was grilled with the mobile details he was stunned and admitted to the killing.
Priyanka was strangulated and her throat was slit. The duo married three years ago and they havn’t any kids.
—Agencies