bengaluru mahadevapura police have arrested a husband and wife with connection to a double murder of an elderly couple that took place on 16 october on sunday dcp whitefield m n anucheth said that the accused murdered the couple to rob themthe accused are venkatesh c h 30 years and his wife arpita 21 residents of amruthahalliaccording to the police chandregowda 63 a retired private company employee and lakshmamma 55 were murdered at their residence in rhb colony in garudacharpalya on october 16 but came to light next day and their house was ransackedthe police said that four teams were formed to nab the accusedaccording to the police sources venkatesh and arpita were married in 2016 and have a one and halfyearold child venkatesh works as an ola cab driver venkatesh had several loans amounting to rs 10 lakhs and decided to pay back the loans by committing murder for gain lakshmamma is a distant relative of venkatesh he had met them in a marriage function in mysuru about a month back after seeing the jewels worn by her he and his wife decided to target this elderly couplethey also visited the house twice to build up a rapport and gain their confidence on 16 october venkatesh and his wife went to the house of deceased brutally assaulted them on their head with a spanner and murdered them they then searched the house for valuables and decamped with gold jewels silver articles and cashthe gold articles were then sold at shri dhanalaxmi jewellers malleshwaram for which they obtained rs 860000 cashthey then absconded to their friend gauthams house in a village in dakshin kannada district based on the investigation clues they were nabbed on saturdayduring the course of investigation venkatesh revealed that he had committed a similar offence in rayasamudra village kr pete taluk mandya district in july this year further enquiry has revealed that an elderly couple gundegowda aged 55 years and his wife lalitamma aged 50 years were murdered in a similar fashion by venkatesh on the night of 12th july 2019 lalitamma was a relative of venkatesh she is the elder sister of his brother in law after murdering them he ransacked the house and made away with 60 grams of gold jewels and cash of rs 2000 the gold was sold by his wife arpita at shri dhanalaxmi jewellers malleshwaram for which they obtained rs 180000 cash and thereafter they repaid some of the loans during investigation 305 grams of gold ornaments and rs 504300 cash has been seized further investigation in the case is on