BMTC driver slits lover's throat, arrested

BANGALORE: A BMTC driver was caught when he was trying to escape from a lodge room in Doddaballapur in Bangalore Rural district on Monday evening. The man had slit the throat of his 30-year-old lover in the room earlier.
Puttaraju, 35, checked in to room No. 102 of Sanchike Lodge after registering himself as a resident of BB Road, Yelahanka, at 11.30am along with a woman, identified as Shantha from Kamakshipalya.
Around 4pm, the lodge staff heard cries for help from the room and alerted a policeman nearby. The policeman rushed to the lodge but Puttaraju had locked himself inside the room. More police personnel arrived and broke open the door only to find a woman lying naked on the bed with blood gushing out of her neck. Puttaraju was immediately arrested. The woman, Shantha, was dead.
Police suspect that Shantha was raped before she was killed. Puttaraju has been in an affair with Shantha for five years.