Bengaluru techie’s father gets life imprisonment for killing daughter-in-law, granddaughter

A fast track court (FTC) has sentenced 54-year-old man and father of software engineer to undergo life imprisonment for killing his daughter-in-law and his three month old granddaughter on August 2, 2011.

The FTC-III judge Sadananda Kalal has found the accused in the case Nagarajan guilty on two counts for murdering his daughter-in-law Vijayalakshmi and granddaughter Neena besides for stealing and fleeing with her gold jewellery worth 4 lakh soon after killing both.

Nagarajan, a native of Tamil Nadu, was angry with Vijayalakshmi, who hailed from another community and married his son Karthik. He had several times picked up quarrel with her on the inter-cast marriage issue and also or not giving him part of her salary to meet the repayment of loans he had raised.

Nagarajan went to the house Vijayalakshmi o Halbavi road in Varthur, Bengaluru east on August 2, 2011 and picked up a quarrel with her. He picked up a lap top and hit her with it on her head. As Vijayalakshmi lay unconscious, he set her and the three month old granddaughter. Before fleeing from the house he decamped with the gold jewels found in the almirah in the house, a chargesheet filed by the then Varthu inspector Ashwathanarayana submitted before the court. The public prosecutor Vagish Hiremath appeared for the police in the case.