Stuti suffered head injuries while her husband Om Prakash hurt his arm when their two-wheeler crashed.
A woman, riding pillion on her husband's bike, fell and died of a head injury when the bike crashed in one of the many potholes of Bengaluru. But it is her husband who is being blamed for the death.
The police have booked Om Prakash for criminal negligence following the death of his wife, 25-year-old Stuti Pandey. The two were software professionals from Madhya Pradesh and Om Prakash has gone back to Satna for the last rites of his wife.
The police case against Om Prakash, however, has triggered outrage on social media.
The police say pending investigation, the case against Om Prakash is routine, since in every accident case, the driver is booked.
But the residents of Bengaluru are livid. They allege that the civic authorities, instead of owning up responsibility, were passing the buck.
The condition of infrastructure in India's software capital is considered to be at an all-time low - its lakes filled with toxic waste, its roads with garbage and potholes, its traffic with crippling jams.
It has even given rise to something called pothole art, where local artists have created lifesize
crocodiles and
anacondas and even
lotuses inside potholes that have been around for weeks.
Concerned with the response, the government held an emergency meeting on Monday. Transport minister Ramalinga Reddy said if officials were found to have been at fault, they would be punished.
The city's only no-pothole road is the one at the centre of the city that leads to the state legislature. It was built two years ago, at a cost of Rs 25 lakh - 25% more than what is spent on a normal road.
The authorities have set an October 21 deadline for filling all potholes in Bengaluru.