A man named Mukti Ranjan Roy wrote a disturbing note revealing that he killed his partner, Mahalaxmi, before taking his own life last month. In the note, he claimed, “If I had not killed her, Mahalaxmi would have killed me.”
Mahalaxmi, a 29-year-old woman, was last seen at her job in Bengaluru on September 1. Coincidentally, this was also the last time her boyfriend and team head, Mukti Ranjan Roy, was seen. After weeks of her absence, neighbors began to notice a foul odor emanating from her home, prompting them to inform her family.
When Mahalaxmi’s mother arrived at the house on September 21, she found not her daughter, but rather dismembered body parts concealed in the refrigerator and blood in the bathroom. According to the police, Mukti Ranjan Roy had dismembered Mahalaxmi’s body into over 50 pieces after killing her.
The authorities traced Roy’s whereabouts to Bhadrak, Odisha. However, he had already taken his own life before they could apprehend him. Nearby his body, investigators discovered a suicide note that contained shocking revelations about his relationship with Mahalaxmi and a confession regarding her murder.
In the note, he confessed to strangling Mahalaxmi during the night of September 2-3. He recounted buying a sharp weapon the following morning and using it to dismember her body in the bathroom before hiding the parts in the fridge. Roy then attempted to destroy evidence by cleaning the bathroom with acid before fleeing to Odisha with his younger brother.
The note made alarming assertions, stating that Mahalaxmi had intended to kill him and had even purchased a black suitcase to dispose of his body. Interestingly, a black suitcase was found in Mahalaxmi’s home near the refrigerator.
“Her intention was to cut my body into pieces, put them in the suitcase and throw them away after killing me. If I had not killed her, Mahalaxmi would have killed me and dumped my body. I killed her in self-defence,” the note claimed.
Roy’s letter also suggested that Mahalaxmi was pressuring him to marry her. He alleged that she would physically assault him when he could not meet her demands. He stated, “Mahalaxmi’s demand was continuously increasing, even though I had given her a gold chain and ₹7 lakh. She also beats me up.”
Mahalaxmi, originally from Tripura, worked at a well-known mall in Bengaluru. Investigations revealed that she was previously married and had a child but lived separately from her family.
Bengaluru Police have announced plans to file a chargesheet in the case soon. Commissioner B. Dyananad confirmed, “We will soon file the chargesheet as we have now got the translation of his suicide note and his postmortem report from the Odisha Police.”
While the weapon used to dismember Mahalaxmi has not yet been located, a woman who operates a shop selling domestic cutting tools at Vyalikaval market in Bengaluru recognized Roy’s photo when shown to her by the police.
The brutality of this case has drawn comparisons to the infamous Shraddha Walkar murder, where Walkar was allegedly murdered by her live-in partner, Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who dismembered her body into 35 pieces and stored them in a fridge before discarding them in a forest area in Delhi in 2022.
