Karnataka - Bangalore

Disabled woman bludgeoned to death

Staff Reporter

The assailants smashed her head with a boulder

BANGALORE: A woman with disabilities, who eked a living by begging, was bludgeoned to death under mysterious circumstances in Banaswadi police station limits in the early hours of Monday.

The police gave her name as Kala (30). Kala had slept on the first floor of a building under construction near IOC Circle in Banaswadi. Vanila, wife of the building's watchman, Prabhu, was sleeping on another floor of the same building.

Around 12.30 a.m., Vanila heard some commotion and she rushed to the first floor. She found Kala lying dead there. The assailants had smashed Kala's head with a boulder, the police said.

The motive behind the murder is not known. Police said circumstantial evidence suggests that there was no sexual attack on Kala. The Banaswadi police have registered a case.

Fatal fall

In the third such incident in the last week, an inebriated man died after he fell from the third floor of a building in Yelahanka New Town police station limits on Sunday night. Police gave his name as Shankar (26) of Gauribidanur taluk in Kolar district. For the past three days Shankar was staying in the house of his cousins, Madhu Kumar and Kumar, on NES Road in Yelahanka New Town. Around 11.30 p.m. when the three were about to sleep on the terrace on the third floor, Shankar accidentally fell and died, the police said.

Case registered

The Yelahanka New Town police have registered a case.

On April 19, a labourer, who was in an inebriated condition, died after he fell from the third floor of an apartment complex under construction near Hosakerehalli Cross in Girinagar police station limits. Incidentally, the labourer, Narasimha Murthy (23), was also from Gauribidanur taluk. In a similar incident on April 25, an inebriated Sreenivasa (35), an electrician, died after he accidentally fell from the terrace of his house in 4th Block, Rajajinagar.

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