Cop stabbed to death by mentally unstable woman

In a bizarre case, a cop on duty in Bangalore bled to death from the stab wounds inflicted on him by a mentally unsound woman.

When the slain cop’s friends and relatives learnt that the accused woman was also the sister of a senior police official, they staged a demonstration in front of the police station protesting against the police for trying to shield the accused by portraying her to be mentally unstable.

D M Madaiah, 47, the head constable of Sampangiram Nagar police station in Bangalore was patrolling the area along with is colleague Prakash on the fateful Tuesday night. When they noticed a woman sitting outside the residence of Assistant Commissioner of Police Ramesh Babu in the area, Madaiah advised her to go inside the house as it was very late in the night.

Suddenly, the woman got up and stabbed Madaiah in the neck with the knife she had with her. His colleague Prakash, who was taken aback by the woman’s attack, tried to restrain her and found blood oozing from the cuts she had already inflicted on her hands.

Immediately, Prakash flashed a message to the mobile patrol vehicle, which rushed a seriously injured Madaiah to a private hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”.

Meanwhile, the police have arrested the woman, who has been identified as Geetha, 45 years, and booked a murder case against her. Though she is married, her husband works abroad. Geetha, who is under psychiatric treatment for the last one year, has been staying with her brother in Sampangiram Nagar.

Police said that psychiatrists treating Geetha have confirmed that she is suffering from “dissociative reaction” and is undergoing treatment for her “impulsive” behaviour. “She has a tendency to cut her wrists and had done the same thing even on the night of the incident”, according Geetha’s psychiatrist M Srinivasa.

However, Madaiah’s relatives accused the Assistant Commissioner of Police Ramesh Babu of shielding her accused sister Geetha by projecting her as a mentally unsound person. Madaiah’s relatives staged a demonstration before the police station demanding the arrest of not only Geetha, but also her brother and Assistant Commissioner of Police.