The Hindu
Bangalore, May 17: The police on Wednesday arrested Sudhakar (25) in Gulbarga district in connection with the murder of M.D. Sukanya (21), whose decomposed body was found in a flat in an apartment on Bannerghatta Road here on Monday.
A police team from Bangalore, with the assistance of their Gulbarga counterparts, arrested Sudhakar at Saradagi-B village in Farahatabad police station limits. Sudhakar has confessed to the murder, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-East) Soumendu Mukherjee said.
Sudhakar, who was friendly with the victim, said he had beaten her. The details will emerge only after he is brought to Bangalore for interrogation.
Sources in the city police told The Hindu that as Sudhakar's mother was a local politician, a group of people gathered near his house and created a scene when the Bangalore police went there to arrest him.
Sukanya, a private company employee, had gone missing on her 21st birthday on May 7. Her decomposed body was found in a gunny bag in the toilet of a vacant flat on the third floor of the newly constructed J.D. Tower apartments in Tilaknagar police station limits.
On Monday, residents of the apartment told the police that a foul smell was emanating from flat number 302. During investigation they learnt that the woman was a friend of Sudhakar, a private company employee, who was living in flat number 301. Sukanya's parents identified her body by her clothes, which were their birthday gift to her, and here bangles.
When Sukanya left for work around 8 a.m. on May 7, her mother had packed idlis for her in a steel lunch box. The box, along with the rotten idlis, was found in the gunny bag. The police zeroed in Sudhakar, who had gone missing since May 7. Sudhakar's employers had lodged a complaint with the J.C. Nagar police that he had disappeared with Rs. 72,000.
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