Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The West Division police of Kamakshipalya police on Thursday arrested a couple who killed their relative in a cold blooded manner and dumped his body in a storm water drain in Andhra Pradesh seven years ago for forcing them to return the loan which they had borrowed from him.
The accused have been identified as Mohammed Ghouse, 39 and his wife Heena Kousar, 27.
Senior officer told media persons a crime review meeting was held in which senior officers took stock of the pending cases in which a missing and murder case information was collected by commissioner of police Kamal Pant in the crime review meeting after collecting information about the case he instructed DCP West, Dr Sanjeev M Patil to form a special team to nab the assailants.
He said the Kamakshipalya police inspector received a credible information from the complainant that the couple who are missing since the murder of her husband are in town as one of their family member died so to pay their last respect they will come there.
Based on information a team went near the house and after all their rituals the team who camped their and kept a close watch on their movements and after getting suspect on them the team secured them and brought to station for questioning.
During questioning the duo couple confessed to the crime and revealed that the deceased has helped them in clearing loan but in return he used to seek sexual favours from her wife so they hatched a plan and killed him by strangulation and carried his body in a bag and dumped it into Andhra Pradesh storm drain.
The team who grilled they spilled the beans they said they had vacated the house and shifted to Andhra Pradesh only to return on Tuesday to attend the last rites of their relative.
A detailed investigation by the team the couple revealed that Ghouse is a tailor by profession and lived in a rented house in Heganahalli .
Ghouse has incurred huge loss in business and borrowed loan from a local money lender.When he failed to return the money and the money lenders started forcing him to repayment,the deceased Wazeer Pasha, distant relative of Kousar intervened and repaid the loan and later started seeking sexual favour in return of the help.
Ghouse came to know about this and objected to Wazeer for which enraged Wazeer demanded him to return the money .
Unable to bear the harassment,the couple decided to get rid of him and as per the plan Kousar invited Wazeer to her home and to offer him favour.
While Wazeer was in compromising position, Ghouse who was hiding in the house,pounced on him and the couple overpowered and strangled him to death using saree.
They later tied the hands and legs of and stuffed the body into a plastic bag covering with shreds of cloths to make it look like cloth bundle.
The couple carried the bag in a scooter to Kavetinagepalli town in Anantupur in Andhra Pradesh and dumped the body in a storm water drain.
The Jurisdictional Somandepalli police few days later recovered the body and registered the case of unnatural death .
They even filed a B report before the court after failing to establish the identity of the deceased .
Meanwhile when Wazeer did not return home,his wife Ayesha filed a missing complaint with the police the next day and the family started inquiring with the acquintance to know where Wazeer had gone.
Ms.Ayesha recently got a information that Wazeer was supposed to visit the house of Kousar and the couple were vacated the house and went missing mysteriously.
The matter was brought to the notice of the police on February 11 and the police swung into action and began to track down the couple until Tuesday when they had come to Sunkadakatte to attend the last rites of Kausar’s grandfather .
The couple have been produced before the court and taken into custody for further investigations.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP, Vijayanagar Sub-Division,Nanjundegowda,PI Prashanth M,PSI,Murthy and his crime staff as,Natesh,Yogish Babu, Hitendra Kumar,Sadashivaiah,Nagaraju and other crime staff has been appreciated for acting Swiftly and timely intervening and arresting the couple who were absconding from past 7 years a special reward will be given to the whole team for their excellent work and speedy action he added.
