Mangaluru, Sept 28: A 26-year-old brutally murdered a woman for turning down his wedding proposal, and then committed suicide by hanging himself under the limits of Moodbidri police station in Dakshina Kannada district today.
The victim is Charishma (22), a resident of Saldanha Compound at Pranthya village in Moodbidri. The accused is Lohith (26), a resident of Muger in Bajal in Mangaluru.
Charishma was residing with her elder brother and mother in a rented house and was alone at the time of the incident.
Lohith, trespassing into the house, allegedly stabbed her in the neck and hit her head with a hammer, the police said.
As the woman raised an alarm, neighbours rushed to her house, following which Lohith entered another room and hanged himself to death, the police said.
Though the woman was immediately rushed to a hospital, she breathed her last on the way, the police said.
It is said that the assailant was a distant relative of the victim, who was a dance artiste, and had proposed to marry her.
While the woman rejected the proposal, her mother, Champavathi, who works in a government office at Karkala, had reportedly told him that she would consider his marriage proposal for her daughter later.
Enraged with Charishma’s refusal, Lohith committed the offence by entering her house from the backyard, the police said.
Moodbidri Police, who have registered cases, are investigating. MLA Umanath Kotian, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Traffic) Uma Prashanth and other officers visited the spot.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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BJP AND RSS ARE BUSY WITH TRIPLE TALAQ, WHILE EVEN THEY CANT BRING LAW AGAINST THEIR OWN RELIGION...WHAT A SHAME
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