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‘Cyanide’ Mallika in Mysore police custody

MYSORE: Serial killer “Cyanide” Mallika was produced before a city court on Thursday which remanded her in four days’ police custody to investigate her role in the mysterious murder of a woman in a lodge here in 2005.

The Lashkar Mohalla police had sought the custody of “Cyanide” Mallika alias Kempamma to investigate the murder of Jayamma, a Group D employee in ESI Hospital, Bangalore, in a lodge on Ashoka Road in the City in June 2005.

Mallika was arrested by the Bangalore police about four months ago on charges of murdering women by administering cyanide.

Though Jayamma was found strangled using a pillow at the lodge, the Lashkar Mohalla police sought to investigate Mallika’s role in the killing after receiving a complaint from the lodge owner and based on the version of the deceased’s relatives that Mallika had brought her to Mysore on the pretext of performing a puja.

The relatives of the deceased also told the police that Mallika had reportedly taken Jayamma to Chamundi Hills to perform puja before she was found dead.

Mallika, who was in the custody of Bangalore police, was handed over the Lashkar Mohalla police after the II Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate remanded her in four days’ police custody.

Police said Mallika’s modus operandi was to earn the confidence of elderly women, who visited temples, and offer to help them tide over their problems by performing special pujas.

Later, she would perform certain rituals at temples before taking them to rooms of their choice and administer them juice or water laced with cyanide. After confirming the death of her victim, Mallika used to escape with the money, jewellery and other valuables. So far, she is accused of killing six women in a similar fashion.

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