JOIN USBengaluru acid attacker Nagesh nabbed in Tamil Nadu
The spurned lover who threw acid on a 25-year-old woman last month has finally been nabbed in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai.
Nagesh Babu, 34, had donned saffron clothes and become a “swami” at a religious place in Tiruvannamalai to dodge the cops. He had discarded his phone and SIM and didn’t contact anyone. But the cops were smarter.
An assistant sub-inspector named Shivanna and a constable Ravi Kumar, both from the city’s Magadi Road police station played a crucial role in tracking him down.
Sanjeev M Patil, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West), confirmed the arrest, which draws curtains on police efforts to trace Babu ever since he attacked the woman on the doorsteps of a gold loan company in western Bengaluru’s Sunkadakatte on April 28.
Police are making arrangements to bring Babu to Bengaluru on Friday night. He will be produced before the magistrate and taken into police custody for questioning, a source said.
Police will question him about where he had been hiding all these days.
Multiple surgeries
Meanwhile, the woman who suffered 40% burns in the attack has undergone several surgeries at St John’s Hospital. Her parents have sought stringent punishment for Babu.
Babu had rented a house belonging to the woman’s uncle seven years ago. He tried to woo her but she spurned him and got him evicted. He recently learnt about where she was working and demanded that she reciprocate his love but she spurned him again. He then decided to attack her with acid.
Babu, who ran a garment factory, sold off the machinery as well as clothes before the attack and went absconding once the job was done.
Police said he initially tried to surrender himself in court and told his elder brother about it but things didn’t work out as he couldn’t find a lawyer on time.
Police are recalling the special teams that were sent to Dehradun, Varanasi, Rishikesh, Andhra Pradesh and other places in search of him.