Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Apr 13: The police, who were investigating the murder of Kumar, a financier who was found murdered near Kallalli graveyard in the city on April 6 this year, have come to the conclusion that Kumar's wife, Doreen Kumar, had hired her husband's killers. Police of Baiyappanahalli station have arrested Doreen Kumar and five people who were involved with Kumar's murder.
Doreen had married Kumar 12 years back. She knew he was a rich financier and dreamed of living a luxurious life. But soon, it is said, she realized that he was a womanizer who slept with women who borrowed from him at his home. When confronted, Kumar used to deride and attack Doreen. Doreen who soon developed an aversion for husband, was waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on him. Recently she came in contact with Patrick, a rowdy sheeter, and entered into an agreement to eliminate her husband. In return, she reportedly agreed to pay Rs 30 lac to him and have relationship with him thereafter. Deputy commissioner of police, Ajay Hilori, and his team, who started investigation from scratch, soon unravelled the mystery behind Kumar's death, about which no clues were initially available.
Kumar, who was moving in his motor bike with friend, Mani, in the pillion at around 4 pm on April 6 near Kallalli graveyard was hacked to death by three persons who had arrived there in another motor bike. Cellphone calls came in handy in his investigation conducted by police inspector of Baiyappanahalli station, Ganapathi. He found that Clara was the last woman to have made a call to Kumar. She had told Kumar to come near Kallalli graveyard to talk about loan to pay school fee of her children. The killers, who knew well that Kumar always reciprocated calls made by women, waited in a deserted spot and killed Kumar there, police personnel said.
After she was taken into custody and questioned, Clara said she w as told by Patrick and his friend, Dinesh, to make the said call to Kumar during a chat at Indiranagar railway station. The police initially arrested Dinesh, and then Patrick and Avinash. All of them confessed to the crime and revealed that Doreen had hired them.
Doreen, who was awaiting a chance to finish off her husband, took assistance from Sridhar, who had raised a loan, and was a frequent visitor to her home to pay interest. As he was lured by the offer of never having to pay interest on his loan, Sridhar contacted rowdy sheeter Patrick through his friend, Prabhu, and met him near Halasur lake. After the deal was finalized, he had collected two lac rupees as advance from Doreen and handed it over to Patrick, police officials stated. The killers had assured Doreen that her link to the murder would never come into the open, but they could not keep up this assurance.
All the accused arrested are in judicial custody now.