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Woman accused of six murders held

BANGALORE: The Kalasipalyam police have arrested Mallika (43) who allegedly murdered six women from lower middle-class families by poisoning them with cyanide and robbed them their of gold jewellery.

The police arrested Mallika while she was trying to sell gold jewellery at a pawnbroker’s shop on Kalasipalyam Main Road.

On the pretext of conducting special pujas to get rid of their problems, Mallika had taken these unsuspecting women to temple towns in Bangalore Rural, Ramanagaram, Tumkur and Mandya districts and poisoned them with cyanide, the police said.

Though five of these murders had taken place in a quick succession in the past three months, Mallika’s first victim, Mamatha, was poisoned in 1999.

According to the police, in the mid-1990s, Mallika, a school dropout, had cheated several people who had invested in a chit scheme she was running while she was residing in Kempegowdanagar. As she was stealing money and valuables to repay the investors, her husband and children deserted her in 1998. She then was living with her aged mother at Badikatte village, off Kaggalipura, on Kanakapura Road on the outskirts of the city.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) K.V. Sharathchandra said Mallika was a regular visitor to the Kabbalamma Temple near Sathnur in Ramanagaram district, the Hatti Lakkamma Temple in Yediyur in Tumkur district.

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