BENGALURU: It was 11.30pm on Wednesday when Sharan Gowda security guard at a private apartment complex near Rajajinagar Ram Mandir north Bengaluru , grew suspicious on seeing resident Hiren Kumar and his minor son carrying something in a bed sheet and walking towards the car at the parking lot.Sharan hurried towards them and was shocked to see bloodstains on the sheet and Hiren’s clothes. He repeatedly asked Hiren what they were carrying. Hiren fumbled for words and Sharan immediately alerted other occupants of the complex and police. Rajajinagar police rushed to the spot only to find a woman’s body in the bed sheet bundle.Hiren immediately confessed to police that he had killed his wife, H Preeti, 38, and was trying to dispose of the body. Police recovered the knife from his first-floor flat and arrested him under IPC Section 302. Investigation revealed that the murder took place between 12.30pm and 1pm and Hiren was sitting next to the body till night.Hiren works as a manager with a private food manufacturing firm at Kurubarahalli, Mahalakshmi Layout, while Preeti was a homemaker. Their minor son is a PU student at a private college. Hiren is from Gujarat and Preeti from Maharashtra, the family told police. “They had come to the city around 20 years ago and were living in the apartment complex for the past eight years. Hiren rarely spoke to neighbours, while Preeti mingled with us. She was as undergoing treatment for depression,” a neighbour said, adding: “The couple never indulged in any fights. However, we did hear Preeti and Hiren screaming at one another on Wednesday morning. Hiren, who usually left for office by 9.30am, had stayed back at home.”Hiren told police Preeti regularly beat him up over trivial matters. “She would throw tantrums over petty issues but I never reacted keeping her health condition in mind. But on Wednesday morning, it was intolerable and I lost my temper. Grabbing the kitchen knife, I stabbed her in the neck,” he said.“The boy, 15, who studies in a nearby college, came home around 4.30pm and broke down on seeing his mother’s body. We are not sure whether Hiren told him what had happened. The father and son sat near the body till 10.30pm and finally, Hiren decided to dispose it of at a desolate place or lake. It appears that the boy helped his father in carrying the body in the bed sheet till the parking lot. We are handing him over to the juvenile home,” police said.