BENGALURU: More crucial information surfaced out regarding the gruesome murder of a call center employee and her son. Police took into custody a Bengaluru native named Shekhar (38), who is assumed to be the boyfriend of the murdered call center employee Navaneetha. Her son Srujan was also brutally killed.

The woman had been estranged from her husband for the past two years. She lived with her son and it was during this phase of her life that she found Shekhar and fell in love with him. Shekhar meanwhile confessed to the police about Navneetha’s recently found love for another person. This turned the mainspring for him to brutally kill Navneetha and her innocent son.

The woman and her son were found dead at home last Wednesday. Navneetha's body was found with her throat slit. Initially, the police suspected that her husband Chandru had committed the murder.