India, April 22 -- The wife and daughter of slain former Karnataka director general of police (DGP) Om Prakash have been arrested and booked on murder charge, police said on Monday, adding the case was registered based on a complaint from the deceased officer's son that he "strongly" suspected the role of his mother and sister in his father's killing.

Prakash, 68, a 1981 batch IPS officer hailing from Bihar, was found dead in a pool of blood in the ground floor of his three-storeyed house in the posh HSR Layout in Bengaluru on Sunday. The Bengaluru police on Monday arrested the former DGP's wife Pallavi and their daughter Kriti after registering a case of murder against the accused.

In his police complaint, Prakash's son Kartikesh alleg...