A 63-year-old man who went missing from the City last week, is now believed to be murdered in Tamil Nadu.

According to the police, a body found with several stab injuries at Soligiri in Tamilnadu’s Dharmapuri district on Friday, was identified by their Tamil Nadu counterparts as Raghavan, a resident of Nanjamba Agrahara under K G Halli police station limits. He was a retired BESCOM employee.

The stab injuries, police said, indicated that the man was murdered. Raghavan has two sons - one in Chennai and another in United States. He stayed with his wife here and had houses at Hennur. He would regularly visit there to collect rent.

He had gone to Hennur last week and when he did not return even after two days, the family lodged a missing complaint at K G Nagar police station. There were no property disputes in the family, the police said adding the case appeared to be related to robbery. Investigations are on.

Commits suicide

A middle-aged man committed suicide by jumping in front of a running train (Bangalore-Mysore) near Deepanjali Nagar on Saturday. The body has been shifted to Victoria hospital and is yet to be identified.
In another case, the body of a male, aged around 35, was found near Kumara Park railway station on Bangalore-Kolar railway track. The body was shifted to Bowring hospital.

Head smashed

A quarrel between a couple took an ugly turn when the husband allegedly smashed his wife’s head with a grinding stone at Sunkadakatte under Kamakshipalya police station limits on Saturday.

Police said Mala (25) had a verbal duel with her husband Shankar (30) at her brother’s residence on Saturday.
For the past six months the husband and wife were living separately. He came to his brother-in-law’s place to take his wife with him but the woman started arguing with him. The heated argument irked the husband who, in a fit of rage, smashed her head.

Wife ends life

A constable’s wife committed suicide at Adugodi on Saturday at the police quarters. Police sources said Lalitha (25) committed suicide by hanging herself. Quarrel between the couple is said to be the reason, the police said.

Youth killed

A 26-year-old youth was run over by a speeding truck near Tavarekere, in the Peenya police station limits on Friday. Raju, who was riding a two-wheeler lost his balance and died on the spot after a truck rammed into his vehicle from behind, the police said.

Gang surrenders

A 10-member gang allegedly involved in the murder of a rowdy-sheeter Govinda alias Nayi Govinda surrendered to the police on Friday.

Govinda, involved in at least 27 criminal cases, was hacked to death recently in the Vijayanagar police station limits. Chandra alias Kariya (22), Somashekar alias Raji (22), Saleem (20), Somashekar alias Deadly (21), Ramesh (21), Raju alias Kadak Mama (20), Faiz (22), Swamy (22), Harish alias Pani Puri (19) and Raju (21) surrendered to the police and confessed to the crime, the police said.