BENGALURU: A 28-year-old man’s partially decomposed body was recovered from the Mugalur lake near Sarjapur in HSR Layout police station limits on Wednesday.
The deceased, Harsha, a resident of Kasavanahalli and an employee at a garment factory, is said to have been murdered by a person known to him with the help of two accomplices on March 13, the police said.
The cops have nabbed the three accused, identified as Karthik, Sanju Kumar, and Santhosh, based on an information provided by an eyewitness on March 14. Although Santhosh did not commit the murder, he helped the other two to dispose Harsha’s body in a gunny bag, the police said.
According to the police, based on the information received by the HSR Layout cops a team was dispatched to nab Karthik, an auto-rickshaw driver and two of his accomplices. They were brought to the police station and during interrogation they confessed to the murder, the police said.
Karthik and Harsha were friends and the former had picked up Harsha in his auto-rickshaw to go out with him and his two friends - Sanju Kumar and Santhosh.
When they reached a eucalyptus grove in Sri Krishnappa Layout nearly three kilometres from Kasavanahalli, Karthik and his accomplices asked Harsha to get down and picked up a fight.
They assaulted him with iron rods and stabbed him, the police said. Later his body was put in a gunny bag and was disposed at a drainage lake in Mugalur, the police added.
Though Karthik was married, he was in a relationship with a woman whom Harsha tried to befriend. This did not go down well with Karthik, who decided to eliminate Harsha, an investigating officer said. He subsequently hatched a plot and committed the crime, the officer added.
“The assault apparently was witnessed by a passerby nearby, who informed the police the next day of the incident,” said Dr Boralingaiah Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) South East Division.
