Mumbai: Forty-five-year-old Amita alias Amrita, who murdered her husband, a former hockey player from Kodagu Chenanda Naveen Appaiah, has claimed that Appaiah had killed himself after stabbing her twice in the stomach. However, the doctors at Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital, where Amita has been admitted, found no stab injuries on Amita who has been booked for the murder.
It may be recalled here that on Saturday (Aug. 19) afternoon, Amita had repeatedly stabbed Appaiah with a kitchen knife in their house in a fit of rage after they had a fight over a family dispute. 52-year-old Naveen Appaiah lived on the 27th floor of Agarwal Trinity Tower Society in Malad’s (West) Kachpada area with his wife Amita, 23-year-old son, Ganapathy, and a 15-year-old daughter.
