Girl gets bail in murder of ex-boyfriend's aide

The 7th ACMM court in the City has granted conditional interim bail to Sushma, the student who had tried to get her estranged boyfriend, Manjunath, murdered through supari killers. However, the killers had managed to murder his aide, Ali Hussain.

The defence advocate appealed to the court to release Sushma on conditional bail till June 22, as she has to appear for her I year BBM supplementary exams in MES college.

Sushma has to appear before the locality police daily and should surrender before the court on June 22, after the exams conclude. 

However, the police suspect the veracity of the claim. A senior police officer told Deccan Herald that their enquiries with Bangalore University revealed that no undergraduate exams were scheduled on the said dates. A senior official said he would visit the MES college on Monday and verify the claim.

Sushma was recently arrested in connection with the murder of Hussain, whose body was found dumped in Doddaballapur. The police arrested Sushma and four other suspects. The police are also questioning the girl’s mother about whether she had any clue of her daughter’s plan and whether she had a role in it.

The girl gave a supari for Rs five lakh to kill Manjunath and Hussain. She had paid Rs 50,000 as advance and had promised to pay the rest of the amount once the killing was executed.

The deal also included the advocate’s fees to be borne to fight their case, if they were arrested, besides arranging for bail. The family had recently received Rs 20 lakh as the share of J Srinivas, Sushma’s father’s, after his brothers sold a family land near Devanahalli. Srinivas, a Vellore-based landlord, died six months ago.

Srinivas had gifted her an SUV after she passed II PUC. He had also appointed Manjunath her driver. Cupid struck the two and Sushma eloped with Manjunath twice in the past one year. But her father dissuaded her from the relationship and sacked Manjunath.

She distanced herself from Manjunath after her father’s death. But, he began to stalk her. He got Hussain to track her movements and report to him. According to police, the duo started blackmailing Sushma to marry Manjunath or they would make public photographs of Sushma with him in compromising positions. They also threatened an acid attack on her.

Sushma narrated this to Vijay, one of her friends. Vijay suggested that the duo be murdered. He contacted his friend Ajay Kumar, a rowdy in Basaveshwaranagar, and a deal was struck.

But the execution of the killing went awry at the last minute when Manjunath jumped out of the SUV when the four hired killers got into the car. They managed to murder Hussain.