Husband’s forceful affair with my sister led to 4 murders : Ramesh Naik’s wife speaks out

Husband’s forceful affair with my sister led to 4 murders : Ramesh Naik’s wife speaks out

Mangalore Today News Network

Puttur, Dec 9, 2013 : “ My husband has committed an unpardonable offence. He has killed my two innocent kids, my mother and sister. Unable to bear the agony, my father and brother ended their lives.

My husband  has now got a death penalty. Justice will be done to my departed family members when the death sentence is confirmed.”

These were the words of a  totally shattered Sundari, wife of Ramesh Naik, a killer of four including his two kids who was recently awarded death sentence by the court recently.

It was in June 2010 that Ramesh Naik  hailing from Ardhamoole in Panaje of Puttur taluk brutally killed his  mother-in-law Saraswathi and  sister-in-law Savitha at their house at Tumkur and then killed his children after dumping them in a lake at Ardhamoole.

The Fifth Additional Sessions Court had convicted him of the crime and had sentenced him to death on December 3.

The  convict Ramesh Naik’s wife who  had been waging a legal battle against her husband has for the first time come out in the open to explain her travails. She  was in tears as she recollected the sorrowful incidents of her life.

She also states that her husband’s  affair with her sister  despite the latter’s reluctance  ultimately led to all the heinous crime. She says her husband, a bank officer, used to threaten his sister who was a Provident Fund employee  in Tumkur and used to  have an affair with her and was also against the plans to get her married off to a colleague Mohan. Sundari further said her sister herself had revealed the other side of  Ramesh Naik to her.

“Still my husband was in good terms with me and   it never came to my mind that he would be such a cruel killer who even killed his very own children,” she said with pain.

“We both were employed in bank and were together for one and a half years at Tumkur.My son Bhuvan was born in 2000 and the same year Ramesh was transferred to Madhya Pradesh while I was posted at Aloor. Daughter Krithika was born in 200. I later took transfer and came to Mangalore,” Savitha recalled.