Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The Madanayakanahalli police in a record time,cracked the case of a 30-year-old truck driver and arrested three people including a 26-year-old who trapped the victim over phone .
The police on Feb 2 found the body of Srinivasa KT,in front of APMC market in Dasanapura in a pool of blood indicating that he was tortured and beaten to death.
The police took up the investigations and call record details led to the arrest of Rabiya,26,from Neelasandra who was the last person to call Srinivasa.
Based on her information,the police arrested her husband Khaisar Pasha,30,a habitual offender and his friend Nagendra Kumar,26 from Gouribidanur.
Investigations revealed that the deceased Srinivasa had an illicit affair with Nagendra’s wife and later started harassing and blackmailing her seeking sexual favours .
Unable to bear the harassment,she told her husband Nagendra confessing her affair .
Enraged Nagendra took the help of his friend Khaisar Pasha and decided to trap Srinivasa.
They roped in Rabiya making use of Srinivasa womeniser behaviour,called him for a date posing as deepa.
As per the discussion Srinivasa came outside the APMC market waiting for Deepa.Meanwhile the duo as per the plan had stolen an autorickshaw from High grounds police station limits and confronted Srinivasa who was waiting on the fateful night and abducted him.
They later tortured and assaulted Srinivasa black and blue before he was tortured and stabbed repeatedly to death
Initially Rabiya tried to mislead the police investigation feigning ignorance about her involvement however when the police confronted her with documentary evidence,she confessed to the crime.
The police also booked Manjula as accused 4 in the case since she knew about the plot.