Date:08/07/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/07/08/stories/2005070804910302.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Man found murdered

Special Correspondent

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Dharani Kumar (30), an electrician from Vellore in Tamil Nadu, was found murdered on a vacant plot in the Subramanyapura police station limits on Thursday. The assailants had stabbed him in the neck.

Police said Kumar had come here 10 days ago and was staying with his sister, Renuka, and brother-in-law, Ravi, at their house in Bharathinagar in Ittamadu. Ravi owns a welding unit in Sreenivasanagar.

On Wednesday afternoon, Kumar borrowed a mobile phone from one of Ravi's employees and left the welding unit in Ravi's car.

Around 7.30 a.m. on Thursday, passersby found Kumar's body lying on a vacant plot in Ittamadu. two km from his sister's house.