Police continue search for dismembered body

Bengaluru, NT Bureau: Two days after the gruesome murder of a development officer of a chit-fund firm, the city police continue to search for the dismembered body parts of the deceased.

The deceased, KV Srinath, 34, a resident of Anjanadri Layout in Thanisandra, went missing on May 28 following which a missing report was filed by his wife, Bhavani at Sampigehalli Police Station.

On Saturday, Ramamurthy Nagar police recovered several decomposed body parts from a drain and sent them for testing.

The alleged assailant, Madhav Rao, 41 residing in Vijinapura, KR Puram, has been arrested after he confessed to have bludgeoned Srinath to death at his house on May 28 afternoon.

The police said that the deceased Srinath and the accused Madhav Rao, both hailed from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh. According to the police, the murder took place over a financial dispute between both parties.

Madhav Rao during interrogation, claimed that when Srinath visited his home on May 28, a heated argument broke out between them over the due payment of Rs 5 lakh.

As the argument took a violent turn, he allegedly took an iron rod and hit Srinath on his head. Rao then cut the body into three parts and stuffed them into different gunny bags.

After 10pm, he placed one gunny bag on his scooter, rode to the drain which is around 12km away and dumped the bag into it.

He similarly disposed of the other two gunny bags at different places in the city. Rao fled from the city on the same night, police sources said.

As the murder took place at Ramamurthy Nagar limits, Sampigehalli Police transferred the case to the jurisdictional police who are probing the crime.