Karnataka - Bangalore

Police searching for suspects involved in woman’s murder

BANGALORE: The city police are yet to get clues about the persons allegedly involved in the murder of a 28-year-old woman in her house in K. Narayanapura in Hennur police station limits on Tuesday.

Police Commissioner Neelam Achuta Rao told presspersons here that the perpetrators of the murder had strangulated Rekha and had later tried to hang her. “They have tried to give an impression of a suicide,” he said. The perpetrators have left the house with Ms. Rekha’s “mangalsutra”.

Mr. Rao said a small child, who was playing near the house, had seen four persons entering the house and leaving a few hours later. The police suspected involvement of persons known to Ms. Rekha and her husband Krishnamurthy, he said.

A 27-year-old garment factory employee was killed when he was run over by a lorry near Hadagamaranahalli in Nelamangala police station limits on Wednesday.

According to police, Nanjappa, a resident of Makali, was returning to the factory on his motorcycle after having lunch in his house. The lorry hit his motorcycle and later ran over him. The Nelamangala police have registered a case.

In another incident, three persons, including an exhausted driver of a multi-utility vehicle, were killed and nine injured when the vehicle hit a tanker near Nelamangala on the Pune-Bangalore National Highway on Wednesday.

Madan Kumar, a supervisor with the construction company Larsen and Toubro, and his colleague Renukamurthy were returning with their family members from a tour to Dharmasthala and Murudeshwar.

Near Makali Gate, the vehicle driver, Krishna (24), reportedly nodded off and rammed the tanker that was in front of them around 4 a.m.

The Yeshwantapur police have arrested Abdul Razak of Madikeri taluk for his alleged involvement in the murder of 38-year-old bag merchant Usman in a guest house in March.

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