Mysore Teens' Murder: Police Claim Breakthrough with Five Arrests
Bangalore, Jun 21 (Bangalore Mirror): Police have arrested five boys in connection with the kidnapping and murder of two Hunsur boys from Mysore on June 8. With the arrests, the police claim to have solved the murder and also recovered murder weapons and jewellery that belonged to the victims.
Home Minister R Ashoka had formed a special team under Bangalore’s Joint Commissioner, Crime, Alok Kumar comprising city inspectors Ashokan, Badrinath, Balegowda and Malatesh.
Sudhindra and Vignesh
They had worked along with the Mysore police to nab the culprits. The police worked on a lot of evidence left behind by the accused and finally zeroed in on the five boys.
Police are on the lookout for three more people involved in the crime. “We have picked up the boys and questioning is on. We are reconstructing the crime scene.
It was a clear case of kidnap for ransom and somewhere along the way, the kidnappers panicked and resorted to the murder,” said a source in the investigating team.
In fact, the bodies of Sudhindra and Vignesh, both II BBM students of SBRR Mahajana First Grade College in Mysore, were found on June 12 on National Highway-7, near Agalagurki village in Chikkaballapur district, near Bangalore. The bodies of the victims bore multiple stab injuries and ligature marks around the neck region.
Sudhindra and Vignesh were abducted on June 8 the same day that Mysore was held hostage by two elephants as they were on their way to write their exams.
Later that day, a police complaint was registered about the missing boys. The kidnappers called the parents of the boys using Vignesh’s mobile phone and placed the ransom demand.
While Sudhindra is the son of Mohan Kumar, owner of a hardware store in Hunsur, Vignesh S is the son of Srinath, a grocery shop owner in the same town.
Subsequently, Vignesh’s phone got switched off and the kidnappers sent the ransom note demanding Rs 5 crore to Sudhindra’s father through a KSRTC bus. Following that, the kidnappers stopped communicating.