Bengaluru: The Kamakshipalya police have arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly stabbing to death a 29-year-old homemaker, his former girlfriend, after she refused to divorce her husband and marry him.
The police have identified the accused as Mohammed Mubin from Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district. Mubin was picked up from Karwar recently.
On December 27, 2017, Taslima Banu was stabbed to death in her residence in Sunkadakatte by the accused.
Kamakshipalya police said Tasleem Banu, also from Sirsi, was earlier keen on marrying Mubin, her then boyfriend. A school dropout, Mubin was arrested on theft charges in 2006 and sent to jail in 2009 for two years.
“Banu’s parents chose a Bengaluru-based man, who runs a welding shop in Kamakshipalya, for their daughter. The marriage took place in 2008 and Banu shifted to Sunkadakatte. The couple had two children including a daughter,” police said.
Mubin, after completing his jail term in 2011, went to Saudi Arabia and worked as a driver before returning to Sirsi in early 2017. Mubin told police that he was in constant touch with Banu and was regularly sending her gifts from abroad. He was desperate to marry Banu but she refused saying she had to take care of her children, police said.
