Bank employee held for murdering in-laws, 2 kids

Puttur/Tumkur: A bank employee was arrested on Friday for allegedly murdering his mother-in-law, sister-in-law and his two minor children in Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada district, police said.
    
Acting on an information given by his colleagues, Ramesh Naik, a bank employee at Sholapur, was arrested from a lodge at Puttur area, where he tried to commit suicide after
committing the murders, Tumkur ASP Shivashankar said.
    
Naik had murdered the two women at Amarajyothinagar at their residence on June 14 and dumped their bodies in a water sump, he said.
    
Last night he went to his house in Mangaladevi area and planned to murder his wife and two children. However, his wife, also a bank employee was away at work, they said.
    
He later took his two children -- a boy aged 10 and a 4 year old girl, to Panaje nearby Puttur and drowned them in a pond.
    
Shivashankar said Naik had confessed during questioning to having committed the murders, following which police retrieved the decomposed bodies of the two women from the sump. The bodies of the children have not yet been traced, he said.

A family dispute is suspected to be the reason behind the murders, police said.