Siddarth Sethia
19-year-old delivery executive was abducted and killed by a gang of four to five people over a row over love affair in Devanahalli police station limits on Friday.
The deceased Preetham was employed in Zepto company for the last five months .
He went to work on Friday and did not return home.
The murder came to light when ramachandra H,father of Preetham came to his workplace to look for him .
Preetham’s colleague had informed him about the accused Shrikanth had come along with four others and picked him up in a car and went away.
His friend told Ramachandra that Preetham was in love with accused cousin studying MBBS and two years elder to him.
Srikanth had opposed and even assaulted Preetham few days ago and warned him to stay away.
However Preetham continue to talk to her for which the accused had abducted him and took away.
Worried Ramachandra while searching passers he got information from Devanahalli police about the body found near a government primary school on Saturday.
Ramachandra went to check and confirmed it was Preetham.He was bleeding from mouth and nose with bruises all over his body indicating that he had been tortured and killed.
Based on the complaint the police have registered a case of murder abduction and efforts are on to track down the accused who are presently on the run.
