A 42-year-old man on Monday allegedly shot himself after killing his mother-in-law at her flat here after flying down from Bengaluru where he had killed his wife, a Kolkata police officer said. In his suicide note, Amit Agarwal had claimed that he killed his wife Shilpi in Bengaluru before flying down to the city on Monday evening, the officer said. "Agarwal was fighting a legal battle for divorce from his wife Shilpi, who was residing in Bengaluru. After learning from the suicide note, we contacted the Bengaluru Police and the DCP Whitefield, they recovered the dead body of Shilpi from a flat there," he said.

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Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Whitefield, M N Anucheth said police in Bengaluru received a message from the Kolkata Police regarding Agarwal and his suicide note. Based on inputs, a police team reached Shilpi's apartment. When she did not open the door, the lock was broken, police in Bengaluru said. "The dead body of the Shilpi was found lying on the floor of the kitchen next to a cupboard," Anucheth said. He added that prima facie it looked like she was murdered but it is subject to official confirmation by post mortem. The case has been taken up by the Mahadevpura police station, Anucheth said. The Kolkata police officer said that Agarwal killed his mother-in-law Lalita Dhandhania, around 60 years old, following an altercation.