Long arm of law catches up with killers

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: A murder case was solved after eight years by the Jigani police, who went on to arrest a couple who were on the run since the murder took place in 2015 in the city. The accused have been identified as Bhagyashree and her lover Suputra Shankarappa Talwar. Police said the two hail from Vijayapura district.

Speaking to News Trail, an officer said that Bhagyashree and Shankarappa had been working at a private manufacturing unit in Jigani Industrial Area. Bhagyashree had separated from her husband and came to Bengaluru. Later, she fell in love with Shankarappa and both started living together in a rented house in Vaderamchanahalli.

However, Bhagyashree's younger brother Lingaraj Pujari objected to his sister's affair and often fought with her on the matter. Seeing Lingaraj as an obstacle to her relationship with Shankarappa, Bhagyashree took Shankarappa's help in murdering Lingaraj and then cutting his bodies into pieces.

Sources from the police said that the murder took place on August 11, 2015. To avoid being caught, the duo stuffed the body parts in several plastic bags and dumped them at different places in the city, police added. It was revealed that the two went absconding from the city and settled in Nashik after changing their identities.

After several months of their escape, the jurisdictional police exhumed several pieces of human body parts found near V Inn hotel in Jigani Police Station limits. With the help of a Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report and a detailed probe into the matter, the police found that the pieces belonged to Lingaraj who had gone missing under mysterious circumstances.