Palakkad man accused of killing his kids ends life in Bengaluru court
The 37-year-old undertrial, Jatin R Kumar of Karippali in Palakkad, was brought to the court from the Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara when he pushed away a constable escorting him and took the plunge.
The 37-year-old undertrial, Jatin R Kumar of Karippali in Palakkad, was brought to the court from the Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara when he pushed away a constable escorting him and took the plunge.
The 37-year-old undertrial, Jatin R Kumar of Karippali in Palakkad, was brought to the court from the Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara when he pushed away a constable escorting him and took the plunge.
Bengaluru: A Keralite, accused of killing his two minor children in 2020, died by suicide. He jumped from the fifth floor of the Civil Court Complex here on Wednesday.
The 37-year-old undertrial, Jatin R Kumar of Karippali in Palakkad, was brought to the court from the Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara when he pushed away a constable escorting him and took the plunge.
Kumar was accused of smothering his two children, Toushini, 3, and one-and-a-half-old Shastha, to death with a pillow at their residence at Akshaynagar in Hulimavu in March 2020.
He was reportedly frustrated over losing his job at a hotel and had been undergoing treatment for depression.
Kumar allegedly committed the filicides after a quarrel with his wife, software engineer Lakshmi Shankar, hailing from Tamil Nadu.
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