Body Found Off Mahadevapura Tank; Murder For Gain Suspected
23 Dec 2006, Times News Network
Bangalore: In yet another crime against IT professionals, a software engineer, Adhit Lahiri (32), was waylaid, abducted and smothered to death on Thursday night. His body was found at an isolated stretch near Mahadevapura tank in Bangalore’a eastern suburbs early on Friday.
The police said software engineer’s wife Aparna Lahiri (in her late twenties), who was waiting for her husband, started getting anxious when he did not return even by midnight. He normally came home around 10 or 10.30 pm.
Aparna rushed to the nearby Airport police station and lodged a complaint about her missing husband. She told the police that her husband was wearing a checked yellow shirt, a ‘sacred’ thread and red ‘sacred’ band around his wrist. Immediately, the police wireless sets started crackling across the city with the description of the missing man.
The police found the body dumped near Mahadevapura tank early on Friday. Adhit had been smothered — prevented from breathing by pressing a cloth or some other object against his mouth and nose. His hands and legs were bound and the police are wondering why the attackers went to such lengths, when they could have just dumped the body.
The police suspect that Adhit, who was commuting by car, may have been waylaid somewhere between ITPB and his house by at least three attackers. There was no sign of struggle at the spot. Initial suspicion was that it could be a murder for gain; Adhit’s car, ring, watch, cash and mobile phone have been robbed. After examination by sleuths and forensic experts, the body was taken to the Bowring Hospital mortuary. The post-mortem will be conducted on Saturday.
Additional commissioner of police Bipin Gopalkrishna, joint commissioner of police Gopal Hosur and deputy commissioner of police P Muniswamy visited the spot where the body was found.
Aparna has been inconsolable and her father, Rear Admiral S S Mukherjee, flew down in the evening to be with his daughter at their residence near Manipal Hospital.
23 Dec 2006, Times News Network
Bangalore: In yet another crime against IT professionals, a software engineer, Adhit Lahiri (32), was waylaid, abducted and smothered to death on Thursday night. His body was found at an isolated stretch near Mahadevapura tank in Bangalore’a eastern suburbs early on Friday.
The police said software engineer’s wife Aparna Lahiri (in her late twenties), who was waiting for her husband, started getting anxious when he did not return even by midnight. He normally came home around 10 or 10.30 pm.
Aparna rushed to the nearby Airport police station and lodged a complaint about her missing husband. She told the police that her husband was wearing a checked yellow shirt, a ‘sacred’ thread and red ‘sacred’ band around his wrist. Immediately, the police wireless sets started crackling across the city with the description of the missing man.
The police found the body dumped near Mahadevapura tank early on Friday. Adhit had been smothered — prevented from breathing by pressing a cloth or some other object against his mouth and nose. His hands and legs were bound and the police are wondering why the attackers went to such lengths, when they could have just dumped the body.
The police suspect that Adhit, who was commuting by car, may have been waylaid somewhere between ITPB and his house by at least three attackers. There was no sign of struggle at the spot. Initial suspicion was that it could be a murder for gain; Adhit’s car, ring, watch, cash and mobile phone have been robbed. After examination by sleuths and forensic experts, the body was taken to the Bowring Hospital mortuary. The post-mortem will be conducted on Saturday.
Additional commissioner of police Bipin Gopalkrishna, joint commissioner of police Gopal Hosur and deputy commissioner of police P Muniswamy visited the spot where the body was found.
Aparna has been inconsolable and her father, Rear Admiral S S Mukherjee, flew down in the evening to be with his daughter at their residence near Manipal Hospital.
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