Mahalaxmi was killed on the intervening night time of September 2 and three.
Bengaluru:
If I had not killed her, Mahalaxmi would have killed me – learn a chilling notice written by a person who killed his companion and chopped up her physique into items earlier than dying by suicide final month.
Mahalaxmi was final seen at her office in Bengaluru on September 1, the identical day her workforce head and boyfriend Mukti Ranjan Roy was final seen. Weeks later, neighbours reported a foul odor coming from her home and knowledgeable her family members.
When the 29-year-old’s mom reached the home on September 21, she did not discover her daughter however chopped-up physique components stuffed in her fridge and blood inside her washroom as a substitute. The police stated Mahalaxmi’s boyfriend reduce her physique into greater than 50 items after killing her.
Police traced Roy’s location to Odisha’s Bhadrak. However it was too late by the point they reached him. Earlier than police may catch him, he killed himself. Close to his physique, they discovered the suicide notice which contained stunning particulars of his relationship with Mahalaxmi and his confession.
He, within the notice, admitted to strangling her on the intervening night time of September 2 and three. He purchased a pointy weapon from the market the subsequent morning, reduce her physique into items within the washroom and stuffed the components within the fridge. Roy then cleaned the washroom with acid earlier than fleeing to Odisha together with his youthful brother, it learn.
The notice additionally claimed that Mahalaxmi wished to kill him and even purchased a black suitcase to eliminate his physique. By the way, a black suitcase was discovered close to the fridge inside Mahalaxmi’s home.
“Her intention was to chop my physique into items, put them within the suitcase and throw them away after killing me. If I had not killed her, Mahalaxmi would have killed me and dumped my physique. I killed her in self-defence,” the notice learn.
Based on Mukti Ranjan Roy’s suicide notice, Mahalaxmi was pressuring him for marriage.
Within the notice, he alleged that Mahalaxmi used to “beat me up” when he did not fulfil her calls for.
“Mahalaxmi’s demand was constantly rising, despite the fact that I had given her a gold chain and Rs 7 lakh. She additionally beats me up,” it learn.
Mahalaxmi, who was from Tripura, labored at a preferred mall in Bengaluru. The police investigation revealed that she was already married and had a baby, however lived individually.
The police have stated they are going to quickly file a chargesheet within the case. “We are going to quickly file the Chargesheet as we have now now acquired the interpretation of his suicide notice and his postmortem report from the Odisha Police,” stated B Dyananad, the commissioner of Bengaluru Police.
The weapon that Roy used to chop her physique has not been traced up to now however a girl who runs a small store of cutters used for home functions at Vyalikaval market in Bengaluru recognized him when his picture was proven to him, the police stated.
Aside from the brutal nature of it, the incident grabbed headlines due to its similarities with the notorious Shraddha Walkar homicide case.
Walkar, 27, was allegedly killed by her live-in companion Aaftab Amin Poonawala, 29. The accused had reduce her physique into 35 items and put them right into a fridge earlier than dumping them in a forested space in Delhi’s Chhatarpur in 2022.