NewsKarnataka-Mysore
Mandya:The Mandya First Additional District Court has passed a judgment sentencing serial killer Cyanide Mallika (48) to life imprisonment. She has been convicted in the case of killing one Pillamma (55) of Bangalore by giving her cyanide.
The incident had taken place on December 18, 2007 when Mallika who had taken Pillamma, a priest of the Chikka Kempamma Temple at Hebbala, to a nearby guest house, had then killed her after giving her cyanide and then fled with her jewellery and cash.
The Maddoor police had then registered a case of unnatural death of an unidentified woman. The accused Mallika was trapped when she was trying to sell the stolen jewellery at Kalasipalya on December 31, 2007. It was after a thorough grilling that Mallika revealed that she had lured as many as six women who visited temples and then rob them of their cash and jewellery after making them unknowingly consume cyanide.
The statement of Mallika admitting the crime, the post mortem report and the circumstantial evidences helped the police in converting this case of unnatural death as a murder. The then inspector of Kalasipalya station SK Umesh had filed the charge sheet in the court.
The Mandya court which had taken up hearing in the case has now passed a judgement convicting Mallika.
