<p>A man arranged to murder his 33-year-old co-brother, driven by the obsession for his sister-in-law and wife of the slain man.</p>.<p>Investigating the murder case, Mahadevapura police arrested Sathya Prasad (41), an engineer from Hyderabad, and eight others who worked with him to kill Lakshman Kumar, a software engineer who lived with his wife in Horamavu.</p>.<p>The other arrested are Prashanth G (20), Prem (31), Dinesh (26), Lokesh (28), Kushanth K (30), Santosh (25), Ravi (37) and Sayida alias Savitha (25).</p>.<p>Obsessed with Kumar’s wife, Prasad drafted cab driver Dinesh to kill Kumar with the offer of Rs 15 lakh and a house. Dinesh is from Hoskote and was working in Hyderabad. Prasad downloaded Kumar’s picture from Facebook and gave it to Dinesh with Rs 1.5 lakh advance.</p>.<p>On January 1, Dinesh and his wife came to Bengaluru and stayed in a lodge in Devanahalli with the other accused. They obtained the number of Kumar’s two-wheeler and began planning the murder.</p>.<p>The accused planned to attack Kumar on January 30 at KR Puram when he was returning from office, but the plan came a cropper since Kumar did not turn up.</p>.<p>On February 3, the accused waited for Kumar in two cars near Horamavu bus stand and followed him as he rode a scooter. They attacked him at the flyover on Outer Ring Road in Mahadevapura. Prashanth stabbed him multiple times and escaped with the others. Kumar was taken to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.</p>.<p>Based on CCTV footage, police caught Prashanth and Prem Kumar on February 9. They arrested the others on Wednesday after the arrested duo spilled the beans about the murder plan.</p>.<p>Sathya Prasad confessed to being obsessed with his sister-in-law and arranged to kill her husband so that she would live at his house as she did not have any other relatives.</p>.<p>Mahadevapura police said Prasad tried to kill Kumar in July 2019 through Dinesh, but he survived the attack. A case of attempt to murder was registered at Hennur police station and the case remained unsolved.</p>.<p>Police seized two cars from the accused, besides a pair of bikes and lethal weapons used in committing the murder.</p>
<p>A man arranged to murder his 33-year-old co-brother, driven by the obsession for his sister-in-law and wife of the slain man.</p>.<p>Investigating the murder case, Mahadevapura police arrested Sathya Prasad (41), an engineer from Hyderabad, and eight others who worked with him to kill Lakshman Kumar, a software engineer who lived with his wife in Horamavu.</p>.<p>The other arrested are Prashanth G (20), Prem (31), Dinesh (26), Lokesh (28), Kushanth K (30), Santosh (25), Ravi (37) and Sayida alias Savitha (25).</p>.<p>Obsessed with Kumar’s wife, Prasad drafted cab driver Dinesh to kill Kumar with the offer of Rs 15 lakh and a house. Dinesh is from Hoskote and was working in Hyderabad. Prasad downloaded Kumar’s picture from Facebook and gave it to Dinesh with Rs 1.5 lakh advance.</p>.<p>On January 1, Dinesh and his wife came to Bengaluru and stayed in a lodge in Devanahalli with the other accused. They obtained the number of Kumar’s two-wheeler and began planning the murder.</p>.<p>The accused planned to attack Kumar on January 30 at KR Puram when he was returning from office, but the plan came a cropper since Kumar did not turn up.</p>.<p>On February 3, the accused waited for Kumar in two cars near Horamavu bus stand and followed him as he rode a scooter. They attacked him at the flyover on Outer Ring Road in Mahadevapura. Prashanth stabbed him multiple times and escaped with the others. Kumar was taken to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.</p>.<p>Based on CCTV footage, police caught Prashanth and Prem Kumar on February 9. They arrested the others on Wednesday after the arrested duo spilled the beans about the murder plan.</p>.<p>Sathya Prasad confessed to being obsessed with his sister-in-law and arranged to kill her husband so that she would live at his house as she did not have any other relatives.</p>.<p>Mahadevapura police said Prasad tried to kill Kumar in July 2019 through Dinesh, but he survived the attack. A case of attempt to murder was registered at Hennur police station and the case remained unsolved.</p>.<p>Police seized two cars from the accused, besides a pair of bikes and lethal weapons used in committing the murder.</p>