‘Man paid ₹2 lakh to contract killers to murder his wife’

Non-Resident Indian Ramakrishna Ganiga (42) hatched a plan to murder his wife Vishala Ganiga in March and paid ₹2 lakh to the two contract killers for executing it on July 12 in Brahmavar in Udupi dis

Non-Resident Indian Ramakrishna Ganiga (42) hatched a plan to murder his wife Vishala Ganiga in March and paid ₹2 lakh to the two contract killers for executing it on July 12 in Brahmavar in Udupi district, said Superintendent of Police N. Vishnuvardhan on Wednesday. Mr. Vishnuvardhan told reporters that the police arrested Ramakrishna Ganiga and Swaminath Nishad (38) of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, who is one among the two contract killers accused in the murder. A search is on for the other contract killer and also others involved in the murder. Vishala Ganiga, who lived with her husband and daughter in Dubai, had come down to her home town on July 2 in relation with partition of ancestral property. She was found dead in her flat in Kumaragodu of Brahmavar on July 12. The police found that the perpetrators had strangled her to death. Five police teams were then formed to trace the accused.