Date:29/07/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/07/29/stories/2006072904920500.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Tania murder accused in police custody till July 31

Staff Reporter

BEREAVED: Kalidas Banerjee (left), father of the slain Tania Banerjee, at M.S. Ramaiah Hospital mortuary, in Bangalore on Friday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

BANGALORE: The VIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Friday remanded Gururaj Kishore, a business process outsourcing (BPO) firm employee, who has been arrested on the charge of murdering his colleague Tania Banerjee, in police custody till July 31.

The Sadashivanagar police, who have taken over the case from the Sakaleshpur Rural police, produced Kishore in the court.

The police are likely to take him to Shiradi Ghats in Sakaleshpur taluk of Hassan district, where he had dumped Tania's body.

The police are yet to trace Tania's mobile phone and the knife with which Kishore had allegedly stabbed her.

He has told the police that he had thrown away the phone and the knife in the Ghats while returning to Bangalore after dumping the body.

Meanwhile, Tania's last rites were performed by her father Kalidas Banerjee at Harishchandra Ghat here on Friday. Some of Tania's friends and colleagues were present on the occasion.

Kalidas Banerjee, a retired railway employee and a resident of Howrah in West Bengal, and his friends arrived here on Friday by flight from Kolkota.

From the Airport, they went to the M.S. Ramaiah Hospital mortuary where Tania's body had been kept, and took possession of it, the police said.

According to the police, Kishore had stabbed Tania (32) in his car after a heated argument on Tuesday night. Later, he had taken the body in the car and dumped it near Maranahalli, 18 km from Sakaleshpur, they said.