Woman, lover arrested for killing her ex-boyfriend in gauribidanur

Dr B Thomas (Special correspondent)

The Gauribidanur police on Saturday arrested a 29-year-old woman who got her first boyfriend killed through her second boyfriend and made it look like accidental death in November last year.

The police who have taken up a case of accidental death and Post-mortem report revealed that actual cause of death.

Based on the PM report the police taken up a case and zeroed in on M Pavithra and her boy friend Rishab Mittal and his company driver Shambhulinga,charging them under murder .

Senior officer told reporters,Pavithra,married with two children working as sales executive in a steel company in Gauribidanur.

She had an affair with her colleague P Prasanna Kumar and the latter starting having an affair with Rishab Mittal,who was her senior and worked as quality manager at the company.

Prasanna came to know that Pavithra is cheating him and used to have frequent fights with her .

Enraged by this,Pavithra sought the help of Rishab who agreed to help her get rid of Prasanna.

As per the plan,Rishab called Prasanna on the pretext of talk about work and strangulated him to death at the company godown.

The accused later directed Shambulinga and others to carry the body in a goods vehicle and dump on the road to make it look like accidental death.