Prabha murder probe: Aussie police in Bengaluru, to visit DK soon


Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (RJP)

Mangaluru, Jan 22: Homicide detectives from the New South Wales police in Australia are in Bengaluru as part of their investigation into the murder of Prabha Arun Kumar. They will visit Amtoor in Bantwal, the native place of the deceased soon.

Prabha Arun Kumar (41), a senior technical analyst with Mindtree in Bengaluru, was stabbed to death in Sydney on March 7 in 2015.

The four-member team that arrived Bengaluru on January 16 is being moderated by the Bengaluru police at the Cyber Crime Wing of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). It is said that the detectives are considering the possibility of the involvement of a person from India in Prabha's murder.

As per sources from CID, nearly 4,000 people have been questioned so far. They include habitual offenders, Prabha’s friends, colleagues, neighbours and others, but a specific clue leading to the culprit has not been found yet.

Detectives had earlier believed that Prabha was murdered for gain. But they changed the theory after they found Prabha’s purse, jewellery and other valuables intact. They now suspect that it could be a planned murder.

The detectives are now considering a possibility of an Indian person’s involvement in the ‘supari’ killing of Prabha. They believe that the person was known to Prabha. The miscreant who stabbed her is still at large.


Detectives to visit Amtoor

The team will head to Prabha’s native place Amtoor in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada (DK) soon. The team has sought the help of Karnataka police for questioning some people including Prabha’s parents, relatives, siblings, husband and his family members.

On March 7, 2015, Prabha left her workplace in Sydney and boarded a local train. She alighted at the Parramatta train station and was walking through the Argyle Street in Parramatta Park when an unidentified man accosted her and slit her throat. She was 300 meters away from her house and, was speaking to her husband Arun Kumar in India over phone.

The Australian police had released the CCTV footage hoping to find the killer. The Sydney police had also searched for the person who was seen in the footage walking nearby through Parramatta Golf Course near Jubilee Lane on the night of Prabha’s murder.

Mindtree had sent Prabha to Australia on a three-year deputation. She left for Sydney in 2012 and was expected to return to Bengaluru in the first week of April 2015, as the project had concluded.

She had married Arun Kumar in 2000 and was living in Basaveshwaranagar in Bengaluru.


With DHNS Inputs

 

  

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  • J. Henry DSouza, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

    Sun, Jan 22 2017

    It is really laudable. They have solved 20 yearsold murder case in Queensland. In this case two ladies died and their bodies were found and one women's body was not found. Still they resolved the case. They found murderer in this. Great achivement.

    They will succeed in their effort too to find the culprit. Let us hope they succeed. If anybody have clue let them report Crime busters of Austrilian nation. Let any doubt they have can be reported.

    Wishing them a full success in their investigations. They are helbent to solve the case. We have to learn lessons from them.

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  • dhanapal kodiyalbail, MANGALORE

    Sun, Jan 22 2017

    GOOD WORK BY AUSSIE POLICE, ALL THE BEST.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Jan 22 2017

    Finally India is Black ...

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  • Francis, Dubai

    Sun, Jan 22 2017

    It is really laudable the effort and determination of Aussie Police to visit Bangalore and find out the real murderer of Prabha. Hope they will get success in their investigation and able to book the perpetrator very soon.

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  • Alphonso Rodrigues, Udupi

    Sun, Jan 22 2017

    So now the 'Indian person' involvement is a good excuse for the Aussie Investigators to pass it on to the Indian authorities and wash their hands off. As soon as the Aussies leave our shores, the investigation file will be kept in the filing room. And thats it. Investigation will go on...

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  • NN, Mangalore

    Mon, Jan 23 2017

    Alphonso, this is not Udipi politician wife's murder case a few years back. Instead of questioning 4,000 people, the Aussie police should have came to India first and our Indian police know better how to bring out the truth. Aussie's do not use such tactics.

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  • Anand, Karkala

    Sun, Jan 22 2017

    Culprit will be on the run from now on...

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Jan 22 2017

    They are hell bend in finding a Indian ...

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