The Kadaba police have booked a case of murder against Ramesh, her alleged lover. Ramesh is a resident of Kookada village.
Pushpa , a PUC student at Subramanya Government First grade college had gone missing the day before her body was found in Koila village near Uppinangady.
A resident of Shantigodu village in Pajirodi and daughter of Sanku, she had come home for holidays. She used to live at the hostel.
During the post mortem it was found that her body was forcefully drowned and hence the police started investigation. Now it has been found that she had been killed for not reciprocating the love by a boy. Police have taken Kokkada Ramesh into custody. Having obtained ITI education he was working in Bangalore and claimed that Pushpa was in love with him before this and had left him to love somebody else. On getting agitated about this Ramesh called Pushpa to the river side under the pretext of talking. He then pushed her into the river and strangled her in the river, the investigation has revealed.
The relative of Pushpa's alleged murderer Ramesh is working in the Police Department and some of the belongings of Pushpa have been found in his house. The role of this officer in the murder is slowly taking shape in the investigation. Being on a job at Puttur Police station he seemed to have known about the murder and had co-operated in the act or must have co-operated for the murder in the pretext of being a relative. District crime prevention team and Puttur ASP are guiding the investigation.
The Kadaba police who had initially booked a case of unnatural death have now booked a case of murder based on the complaint filed by Pushpa's father Sanku.
According to the complaint, Ramesh had been in love with Pushpa for some time and had even promised to marry her after the latter completed her education. Sanku also mentioned in the complaint that Ramesh's had started behaving suspiciously since Pushpa went missing.
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