Bengaluru: A man was arrested by Peenya police for allegedly murdering his wife and mother-in-law on Thursday January 22.

The arrested had been identified as Basavaraj who is a driver by profession.

Basavaraj murdered the women by crushing their head with a grinding stone while they were sleeping in the house in Peenya on Tuesday night.

The accused, a native of Chitradurga, fled to his native after killing his 23-year-old wife Chitrakala and mother-in-law, Omkaramma.

According to the police, a team of officials went to Chitradurga and nabbed the accused from his house. He was brought to the city on Thursday morning.

The deceased Chandrakala had left Basavaraj two years ago and was settled in Shivpura in Peenya along with her mother and two children. On Tuesday night, the couple got involved in a verbal spat when Basavaraj asked his wife to come back to Chitradurga.

When Omkaramma, the accused’s mother-in-law tried to intervene, an enraged Basavaraj took a grinding stone and bludgeoned his wife and mother-in-law while they were sleeping and fled the scene.