Overview

• Yashas, a 25-year-old IT professional from Kengeri, stabbed his 33-year-old married lover, Harini, late on June 6 after she told him she could no longer continue their affair.
• Harini’s body was discovered two days later in the OYO hotel room in Poorna Prajna Layout, with investigators noting 17 stab wounds to her torso.
• After the attack, Yashas returned home, inflicted a minor wound on himself and then confessed to a constable at Kengeri police station before his formal arrest on June 8.
• Police say the murder was premeditated, alleging that Yashas brought a knife to the hotel, and they have registered the case at Subramanyapura Police Station.
• Authorities are probing digital communications and witness statements as part of an ongoing investigation into violence linked to extramarital affairs in Bengaluru.