Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)
Puttur, Feb 13: The six-year-old Kakkoor murder case in the taluk, which had kicked up lot of interest, has got a new twist with the report of Pune forensic science laboratory that has confirmed that a skeleton found in the past was not that of Kakkoor Venkataramana Bhat. The report said that the skeleton does not match blood samples of Bhat's brother.
With this finding, the six-year-old case in which four persons from a single family were killed, has gained public attention again. Till now, people had come to believe that Bhat had killed his wife, Sandhya, and children, Harigovind, Vedya and Vinutha before committing suicide himself. However, the report now has given credence to the belief that Venkataramana Bhat might be alive.
Venkataramana Bhat and family
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A lady and her children had been murdered at the family's house at Kakkoor near Renja on June 12, 2012. The incident had come to light when the electricity meter reader visited the house after three days. Even as information spread that Venkataramana Bhat, who was a practitioner of native medicines and astrologer, had murdered his family members and went underground, a skeleton was found inside the forest at Kakkoor on November 13 the same year. people thought this to be belonging to Bhat.
A week before the said mass killings, the house belonging to the family had been burgled. There had been rumours which claimed that search for the 'Nagamani (precious gem belonging to cobras with special powers as per mythology)' had been undertaken in this house. People came to believe that the murders had something to do with this Nagamani.
The new development has complicated things further. Questions have therefore arisen about the current whereabouts of Kakkoor Venkataramana Bhat, who the people believed, had killed his family members, to whom does the skeleton found in thick forests belong, and whether the murders had something to do with search for proverbial Nagamani.
The people hope that the police will throw light on these issues.