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Bengaluru man kills two daughters over wife’s affair, attempts suicide
A 40-year-old Bengaluru man, identified as SG Imran, allegedly strangled his two daughters, aged five and ten, inside a room at the Taj Bangalore hotel near Kempegowda International Airport on Monday. He…
The Story in Brief
A 40-year-old Bengaluru man, identified as SG Imran, allegedly strangled his two daughters, aged five and ten, inside a room at the Taj Bangalore hotel near Kempegowda International Airport on Monday. He then slit his own throat in a suicide attempt. The man, a manager with a private cab company, had checked into the hotel on Sunday evening, claiming he needed to receive a guest from Dubai. Hotel staff discovered the bodies after he failed to check out.
Police recovered a death note from the scene in which Imran reportedly wrote that he was 'fed up' with his wife's alleged extramarital affair and was taking his daughters with him. The girls were declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital, while Imran is undergoing treatment. The Siasat.com report adds that police are examining CCTV footage and phone records, and the bodies have been sent for postmortem. The investigation is ongoing.
The Indian Opinion
The suicide note blaming the wife is a convenient narrative, but it cannot excuse the murder of two innocent children. This case, like many others, risks being reduced to a tale of a man driven to despair by his wife's alleged infidelity. The real questions are about a system that fails to intervene in troubled homes and the toxic masculinity that equates a spouse's actions with ownership of children. The police must investigate the wife's account and the family's history before the note becomes the final word.
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, siasat.com
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Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
