Chartered Accountant commits suicide after killing wife in Bengaluru, mother-in-law in Kolkata
Kolkata/IBNS: A middle-aged chartered accountant committed suicide in his in-law's flat at Kankurgachi area in north Kolkata on Monday shortly after shooting dead his mother-in-law while his wife's body was recovered from her Bengaluru flat on the same day, officials said.
According to police reports, 42-year-old chartered accountant, Amit Agarwal, killed his wife, Shilpi Agarwal, in her Bengaluru apartment on Saturday (June 20) and took a flight to Kolkata on Monday, and arrived at his in-law's place in Phoolbagan where he murdered his mother-in-law, 70-year-old Lalita Dhandhania, and committed suicide later.
"Phoolbagan Police Station received a call in the evening where they were informed that one Amit Agarwal (42) shot at his mother-in-law, Lalita Dhandhania (70), at a posh apartment at Ramkrishna Samadhi Road in Kankurgachi," a senior city police official told IBNS.
"A team from Phoolbagan PS rushed to the location and found bodies of both Amit Agarwal and his mother-in-law, from the flat and police also recovered a suicide note where Amit Agarwal wrote that he was committing suicide and he had already killed his wife, Shilpi Agarwal, in her Bengaluru apartment," the official said.
"We immediately informed Bengaluru police and they reportedly recovered the body of Shilpi Agarwal from her flat in Bengaluru city," the official added.
Kolkata Police officials said that father-in-law of the chartered accountant, Subhas Dhandhania was also present at his Kankurgachi flat when Amit Agarwal shot at his mother-in-law during a verbal spat, and he somehow managed to escape from the scene unhurt.
"After witnessing the shooting, the aged man took shelter in his neighbour's flat, after locking his apartment's door from outside, and informed the police," a source in the city police said.
"It has been also known that Amit Agarwal and his wife Shilpi Agarwal, who is also a chartered accountant, were staying separately for the last two years and a divorce case was underway between them," the source added.
City police officials said that an investigation had been started into the case and both the bodies had been sent for post mortem.
"After registering a case under IPC section 302, the local police station and our homicide section have initiated a probe into the matter and we are in touch with the Bengaluru Police as well," a senior police official said.
"We have also recovered a firearm which was used in the shooting and our investigation is on to know from where the man managed the firearm," he added.
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