'Why this ghastly crime ?', crowd confronts Sri Mahesh when brought home as part of investigation

ALAPPUZHA: ‘Why the heck did you commit this ghastly crime’ was the few questions that blared among natives who stormed to see a glimpse of Sri Mahesh who was brought as part of a police examination to his home in Mavelikkara. Sri Mahesh never uttered a word but quietly nodded to police questions. It was yesterday that Mahesh killed his five-year-old daughter Nakshatra with a hatchet. The wound was deep in her neck and the sound of the scuffle made Mahesh's mother rush to their home from the nearby premise. What she saw was ghastly. Nakshatra laying in a pool of blood while Mahesh brandishing a hatchet with crude eyes looking for the next target. Without sparing a thought, he attacked his mother who is now admitted to hospital with serious injuries.

Three years before, Mahesh's wife Vidya committed suicide which shattered the family. Mahesh then restricted his life only to his daughter. The father and daughter were in too much bonhomie that they used to go out every day. The police assume Nakshatra might have pestered Mahesh about going to her mother's home, bringing uncontrollable anger.

Mahesh came from UAE to Kerala only after his father's death. His mother was a retired nursing superintendent. The family even found another bride for Mahesh and was fixing on marriage. However, the relationship went sore after Mahesh made it often to barge into his fiancee's home creating a ruckus.