Two students' murder: Police yet to make headway

By K.V.Subramanya

BANGALORE, MAY 28. Police have failed to obtain any clues in the two murder cases reported from Ramamurthynagar and Bannerghatta police limits in which an MCA student was brutally hacked to death at her house and an engineering student was shot dead.

Four months have passed since Ms. Raksha Shetty (22) of the Jyothi Nivas College was stabbed to death with sharp weapons at her house by culprits who also made away with some gold ornaments

The body of Raksha, the only daughter of Mr. Mohan Das Shetty, Vigilance Officer in the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL), was found on a bed at their house on February 2, 2000.

Raksha was alone at the house when she was attacked late on that fateful evening. Police initially suspected that a maid, who was sacked by Mr. Shetty's family, was behind the crime.

As the Deputy Commissioner of Police (East), Mr. K.L.Sudhir, said police teams were sent to over a dozen places, including Chitradurga and Mangalore, for investigation. But police could not achieve any breakthrough.

A senior police officer told The Hindu some time ago that police suspected the involvement of Dandupalya Krishna's gang in Raksha's murder.

The officer maintained that though Krishna and many of his associates were in jail when the offence took place, the other members of the gang, who were absconding, might have murdered Raksha.

However, Mr. Sudhir told The Hindu on Sunday that they had no clues about the killers, though efforts were being made by police to identify and nab the culprits. The Ramamurthynagar Police Inspector was investigating the case.

Similarly, in the Tahir Zung murder case too, police have not been able to make any headway, though the Bannerghatta Police and the Mico Layout Police claimed that they were trying to ascertain who killed the engineering student hailing from Orissa.

Mr. Tahir Zung (23), who was studying final year B.E. (Electronics) at the Islamiya Institute of technology located on Bannerghatta Road, was found missing from his room at New Gurappanapalya in the Mico Layout police limits on April 10.

On April 13, his body was found with bullet injuries in a well at Lobonagar, off Kalenaagrahara, in Bannerghatta Police limits in the Bangalore Rural District.

While the Mico Layout Police registered a "missing" case following a complaint by Zung's cousin, the Bannerghatta Police took up a case of murder.

As the Bangalore Rural District Superintendent of Police, Mr. S.Ramakrishna, said despite certain inquires made by police with college authorities and Zung's friends, they could not obtain any clues.

Police had some information that Mr. Zung was involved in an affair with a woman residing in Gurappanapalaya and she might have played a role in his killing. But interrogations revealed that the woman was no way connected with Zung.

A relative of Zung also spoke to the Bangalore Rural District Police over telephone from Orissa and gave them some information. However, it did not help the investigation. Now, the Anekal Circle Inspector, under whose jurisdiction Bannerghatta fell, was probing the murder.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), Mr. T.Suneel Kumar, said that the efforts made by the Mico Layout Police, from whose jurisdiction Zung was reported to be missing, to crack the murder had not yielded any results so far.

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