Pramesh S Jain
In a fresh development in the murder of seven members of a family, Rajajinagar police have traced two more bodies, suspected to be those of Shivakumar and his wife Divya,near the foothills of Chamundi Hills in Mysuru.
Police are taking the accused,cab driver Indushekhar,to the spot to identify the exact location where the bodies are suspected to have been dumped.
The bodies will be exhumed in the presence of family members, and their identities will be confirmed after identification, police said on Sunday evening.
With this development,five bodies have been traced so far in the case, while the search for the remaining two continues.
A special police team has been deployed to Shiradi Ghat, where it is conducting searches for the missing bodies.
On Sunday,police recovered the bodies of the accused’s wife,Sunita,and mother-in-law,Rupavathi,from a forest area in Salem,Tamil Nadu.
Their post-mortem examinations are scheduled to be conducted on Sunday,following which the bodies will be brought to Bengaluru.
The body of a young boy was earlier recovered near the foothills of Nandi Hills and has already been cremated.
According to the investigation,Indushekhar allegedly murdered seven of his relatives,including his wife,over a period of just 15 days.
He is suspected to have packed the bodies in gunny bags, transported them in his car and dumped them at different locations,including the foothills of Nandi Hills,a forest area in Salem,the foothills of Chamundi Hills and Shiradi Ghat.
The accused,who is currently in police custody,is being subjected to intensive interrogation as investigators try to establish the sequence of murders,the motive and the locations where the remaining bodies were disposed of.
