Software professional suspected of killing wife in Bengaluru telephoned neighbour from Maharashtra to report presence of body

After informing the tenant of the presence of the body of his wife, the suspect, Rakesh Khedekar, who fled in a car to Maharashtra, is alleged to have attempted suicide but was found by the Maharashtra Police.

“The husband is alleged to have attempted suicide. He has been admitted to a hospital in Pune. The blood relatives of the victim have come to Bengaluru to identify the body and file a complaint. The prima facie indication is that the motive for the murder is a marital dispute,” Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda said Friday.

According to the FIR registered by the Hulimavu police in the murder of Gauri Anil Sambrekar – based on a complaint filed by the owner of the house where the couple lived – the accused Rakesh Khedekar telephoned another tenant Prabir Singh and informed him about the presence of his wife’s body in the rented house where he had been living.

According to the complaint by Sanitha G, the house owner, the other tenant who was living on the ground floor telephoned her at around 4.35 pm on Thursday and stated that he had received a call from Khedekar saying the body of his wife was lying in the house.

Based on the information, the complainant telephoned the police emergency number of 112, and after a police team arrived at the scene, the house owner opened the locked first floor where Khedekar and his wife stayed.

The Bengaluru police began tracking the location of Khedekar’s mobile phone based on the calls he had made to the tenant and found that he had reached Maharashtra. They alerted the local police and dispatched a team from Bengaluru as well to locate Khedekar. The Maharashtra Police tracked down the software professional shortly after he allegedly attempted suicide.

A police team from Bengaluru has reached Pune and will take Rakesh Khedekar into custody for the probe of the murder of his wife as soon as he is discharged from the hospital, the police said.

“The woman’s whole body, which was intact, was found stuffed in the suitcase, which was in the washroom,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Sarah Fathima said on Thursday.

The couple, married for two years, was originally from Maharashtra, the police said, and moved to the rented house in February 2025. Khedekar was employed as a project manager in a reputed private firm. Sambrekar was a homemaker and was looking for jobs.

“Forensic analysts have found a stab injury on the body,” an investigator said.

The police suspect that Khedekar intended to dispose of the body after the murder but later abandoned the plan, fled the scene, and informed the tenant about the presence of his wife’s body before attempting suicide.