Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
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he Marathahalli police on Monday cracked the murder case of a 70-year-old realtor and arrested three people including the son who paid Rs.1 Crore supari and offered one flat each to eliminate his father .
The accused Manikanta,30, had met the accused in prison when he was arrested for the murder of his first wife .
After coming out of prison,Manikanta married Archana, and had a girl.However Archana got to know that Manikanta was in bad company and even having extra marital affair.
She along with her daughter returned to her mother and applied for divorce,but the fatherin-law,Narayanaswamy,a real estate businessman in Marathahalli having around 28 flats in his name, convinced Archana against divorce and assured to gift her a flat and monitory help.
Narayanaswamy was also not happy with his son and started to keep a distance.Enraged by this Manikanta chalked out a plan and roped in Shivakumar,24 and Adarsha T, 26,offering them Supari of Rs.1 Crore,a flat and gold valuables to eliminate Narayanaswamy.
Manikanta even paid Rs.1 lakh to the accused as advance.
As per the plan,Shivakumar and Adarsha kept a watch on Narayanaswamy and hacked him to death at the parking lot of Indraprastha apartment .
The duo hacked him to death on February 13 and sped away on bike.
Manikanta who was at home at the time,rushed his father to the hospital where he was declared dead to create an alibi and even performed his last rites, thinking that he take over the property.
During the course of the investigations,the Marathahalli police, knowing about his criminal background, suspected Manikanta role and confirmed through the call record details before picking him up for questioning.
A detailed probe led him to confess based on which Shivakumar and Adarsha were arrested.The police have recovered the bike and lethal weapons used by the accused for the murder and further investigation is on said a senior officer.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,CH Pratap Reddy,has appreciated Addl CP East,M Chandrashekhar,DCP Whitefield,Girish S,ACP, Marathahalli,Kishore Bharani,PI,Anil Kumar,PSI,Rangesh,ASIs,as,Harinath,Allah baksh,and crime staff as,Shivaraj,Harish,Mahadev Nayak,Manjunath,Anand Gowda,Sulleman,Rajendra, Mallikarjun,and Whitefield Technical Division wing staff,Madan,and Manjunath has been appreciated for the exemplary and meticulous investigation done by them in nabbing the son and other contract killers and a suitable reward will be given to whole team he added.
