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Electrician from Vellore found murdered

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 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.

He went to his sister's house around 8.30 p.m., left the car there and went out. Kumar told his sister that he would return after some time, the police said.

Around 7.30 a.m. on Thursday, passersby found Kumar's body lying on a vacant plot near a slum in Ittamadu, some two kilometres from his sister's house, police said.

The Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), M.C. Narayana Gowda, said the motive behind the murder is not known. "Some one from Vellore could have come here and murdered him. The mobile phone he was carrying is missing," he said.

Mr. Gowda said Kumar had got a job in Dubai and he was scheduled to go there soon. He had also got his visa, he said.

The Subramanyapura police have registered a case.

Woman dies

A 55-year-old woman died after a youth allegedly punched her on the chest in J.C. Nagar police station limits on Wednesday.

The police gave her name as Regina, a labourer and a resident of Muddamma Garden. Around 4.30 p.m. Regina's relative, John, and her neighbour, Vijay Kumar, were quarrelling over a trivial matter. When she intervened and tried to pacify them, Vijay Kumar allegedly punched her on the chest and she collapsed, the police said.

Regina, who was suffering from hypertension and diabetes, was rushed to a hospital. But she died on the way, the police said. The J.C. Nagar police have registered a case of murder and are on the lookout for Vijay Kumar.

Student knocked down

Vijay (17), a first year PU student, was killed when a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus hit his motorcycle on R.T. Nagar Main Road, on Thursday.

Police said Vijay, a resident of L.R. Bande in Shyampura, was a student of a college in Malleswaram. The R.T. Nagar traffic police have arrested the driver and seized the bus.

House burgled

Thieves broke into the house of a Bharat Electronics Ltd. employee in BEL quarters and made away with gold ornaments and $ 200.

According to a complaint lodged with the Jalahalli police by Rajendra Singh, the burglary took place when he had been to Punjab with his family. His family was away for the past 20 days and returned on Wednesday, the police said. The Jalahalli police have registered a case.

Arrested

The Wilson Garden police have arrested two youths on charges of theft and recovered from them a huge quantity of nuts and bolts worth Rs. 3.50 lakhs.

The police said that using fake keys Raghavendra (24) of Bagalagunte and his relative, Nagaraj (24) of Manchenahalli in Gauribidanur taluk of Kolar district, entered the godown of an industry on H. Siddaiah Road and stole the nuts and bolts that were packed in gunny bags.

Head found

The head of a baby was found on 3rd Cross Road in Silver Jubilee park police station limits on Thursday.

The police suspect that someone abandoned the baby two days ago. The Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), M.C. Narayana Gowda, and the DCP Central, G.B. Chebby, visited the spot. The decomposed head has been sent to the Victoria Hospital for forensic examination. A case has been registered.

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