The twenty-nine-year-old woman who had strapped her sons to herself and jumped into a pond in Kogilu Layout near Yelahanka on Friday has been identified as Kamakshi. On Saturday morning, the police identified the woman, her son Gagan, 3, and her adopted son Chethan, 5—residents of Ajwara village near Chikkaballapur.
Kamakshi married cab driver Shivakumarachari eight years ago. She was very attached to her two sons. The couple had a fight over the husband not buying new clothes for the children for Ganesha festival. Agitated, she came to her elder sister Shanthamma’s house in Kogilu Layout.
Kamakshi reportedly told her sister that she will head back to her village and left Shanthamma’s house. Shanthamma believed that her sister went back to her husband.
But, Kamakshi, who had been fuming, instead went to a pond near Kogilu Layout, tied her children to her and jumped into the pond. The trio died the same day, the but tragedy came to light only on Friday when the locals found the bodies floating in the pond. The Yelahanka police had shifted the bodies to the Bowring Hospital for identification.
A worried Shanthamma called Kamakshi’s husband as soon as she heard of a woman found dead along with two kids in the pond.
He told her that Kamakshi had not returned home. They contacted the police and later rushed to the hospital and identified the bodies. The police have handed over the bodies to the relatives after the post-mortem examination.