Wife-son murder accused Former Jawan held after 12 years by VV Puram Police

Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar

The South Division police of VV Puram police on Monday arrested a 53-year-old former air force Jawan accused of killing his wife and two children who attacked a police escort with chilli powder and escaped with the handcuff from victoria hospital premises in December 2010 .

The accused has been identified as,Dharam Singh Yadav,native of Haryana was living with his wife Anu Yadav and children Kirthi,14 and daughter Shubham,8,at a house in Singapura layout in Vidyaranyapura after retiring from service.

Senior officer told reporters,Dharam Singh Yadav works as a purchasing officer at a private company after working as a jawan at airforce for 20 years .

The accused enrolled in Jeevansathi.com,a marriage online website with a fake profile and got a marriage proposal too.

Thinking that his wife and children spoil his marriage plan,he killed his wife and children to make it look like murder for gain in October 2008 and filed a complaint with the police .

However the Police during the course of investigations found his involvement and arrested him.He was remanded to judicial custody.

After serving 2.2 years in prison Dharam Singh Yadav developed urinary complications and was taken to victoria hospital for treatment .

While he was being escorted the accused attacked the police with the chilli powder which he had stolen from the prison kitchen and escaped with the handcuff.

He later escaped to his Ateli town in Haryana and started running a liquor shop on the liquor license of someone else.

The accused in 2012 again uploaded a fake resume on jeevansathi.com and married a woman and had two children from her .

However the VV Puram police who kept a tab on the accused based on credible information the team finally tracked him down to Assam based on technical inputs and arrested him and remanded to judicial custody and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP South,Harish Pandey,ACP,BL Srinivasmurthy,PI,Kiran Kumar S Nilgar,PSI,Manjunath and crime staff as, Srinivasmurthy,Mahalingappa,and technical wing staff as,Ravi who has done a exemplary and meticulous investigation in tracking the accused to Assam and has successfully nabbed him and brought to Bengaluru and for the commendable job done by them a special reward will be given to the whole team he added.