Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
The Bannerghatta police on cracked the case of a home alone woman murder case and arrested a 21-year-old garment factory employee from his native Aurangabad on Thursday.
The accused Indel Kumar,is among the seven accused who strangulated 52-year-old home alone Geethamma to death and later chopped her body parts at her own house so that they could carry easily and disposed in the forest area.
The accused carried out the brutal killing after the victim refused to transfer her property in the name of the prime accused,which he intended to sell and make quick money.
The accused however,unable to carry,the accused dumped the buried the torso at the backyard of her house in Janata Colony and escaped .
The murder came to light when neighbours complained of foul smell emanating from the backyard and alerted the police.The police recovered the highly decomposed torso of Geethamma on June 1.
The police rushed to the spot and found the tenants were also missing under mysterious circumstances and started investigations and until on Thursday one of the accused was tracked down on Thursday.
Mallikarjuna Baladandi,Superintendent of Police, Bengaluru district,said that the prime accused Pankaj Kumar Paswan,from Bihar was a tenant of the victim and worked as a labourer.
He used to do odd jobs for the victim who was living along ever since her husband died six years ago.The victim had a two daughters who were married and settled in the city .
Pankaj realized that the victim was earning and also owned a house,which he wanted to take over and sell .
He hatched a plan to get it transferred to his name and sell it to make quick money.
He roped in his associates Indrajeeth Kumar,Goutham Kumar,Sataranjan Kumar,Akendar Kumar,Sumith Kumar and Indel Kumar they hatched a plan to transfer the property.
As per the plan he prepared a set of documents related to property transfer and went to her house on the fateful day of May 28.
The accused forced her to sign on the property papers but Geethamma refused outright.Enraged by this Pankaj strangulated her to death with a mobile phone charger wire while Sumith and Indel held her hands and legs to stop her from resisting while others kept a watch outside the house .
After strangulating Geethamma to death,The accused brought hexa blades to chop her body parts so that they could carry without being noticed .
The accused carried the body parts and dumped in the forest area in different directions while they could not move the torso and buried in the backyard.
The police team who track down Indel Kumar at his native were under attack after Indel Kumar and his family members pelted stones at the police and manhandled them while Indel was being arrested.
However the police with the help of jurisdictional police managed to pin down Indel Kumar and arrested him, Deputy Superintendent of Police,AV Lakshminarayana, said .
The police so far managed to recover the torso,head and right hand.while looking out for the other body parts .
The other six accused involved in the case are on the run and efforts are on to track them down,Mr,Baadandi said,appreciating the police team for cracking the case and arresting the accused he added.