Unemployed Engineer Shoots Wife in Bengaluru Over Divorce Notice, Surrenders

• Balamurugan, a 40-year-old unemployed software engineer, shot his estranged wife Bhuvaneshwari in public in Bengaluru.
• Bhuvaneshwari, an Assistant Manager at Union Bank of India, was shot after returning from work and later died at Shanbagh Hospital.
• The couple, married in 2011, had marital discord; Balamurugan suspected an affair and was enraged by a recent divorce notice.
• After the murder, Balamurugan surrendered at Magadi Road Police Station, confessing to the crime.
• Police have registered a case under the Indian Justice Code, and an investigation is underway.

Why It Matters: Marital discord and a divorce notice led an unemployed engineer to murder his wife in Bengaluru.