Mysuru: Unemployment despite good education and work experience, property dispute and constant fight in the family drove a software engineer (design) to kill his wife and only child in city. After committing the crime, the engineer also attempted to end his life but was unsuccessful. He is now admitted to a private hospital where he is recuperating.
The incident occurred at Vijayanagar Fourth Stage near Basavanahalli Circle and the engineer is R. Prajwal. He killed his 38-year-old wife Savitha, a computer science engineer and 10-year-old daughter Sinchana, a fourth standard student at SVEI School, Vijayanagar Fourth Stage. Police said that Prajwal slit the throats of Savitha and Sinchana on May 23 and attempted to kill himself on May 24 (yesterday).
