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Husband Turns Monster After Divorce Request, 5-Year Love Marriage Ends in Horror
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News18•29-09-2026, 18:02
Husband Turns Monster After Divorce Request, 5-Year Love Marriage Ends in Horror
- •A 31-year-old woman, Lakshmi Madmageri, was allegedly murdered by her husband Raju in Belagavi district, Karnataka.
- •Lakshmi had asked her husband Raju for a divorce, leading to her death during an argument.
- •Raju and Lakshmi had a love marriage five years ago, but their relationship had recently become strained.
- •Raju took Lakshmi from her workplace on the pretext of dropping her home, then attacked her with a stone near Amatur, leading to her death.
- •Police are currently searching for the accused husband Raju and investigating the full sequence of events.
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Lakshmi Madmageri was allegedly murdered by her husband Raju after she demanded a divorce following frequent quarrels stemming from tensions in their five-year love marriage.
Under the pretext of dropping her home from work, Raju took Lakshmi toward Amatur, where an argument broke out, and he allegedly attacked her with a stone and beat her to death before fleeing the scene.
Previous violent incidents in Karnataka include an assistant bank manager shot dead by her estranged husband in West Bengaluru after sending a divorce notice, a woman stabbed for rejecting a marriage proposal, and a woman killed outside a court complex following divorce counseling.
