<p>A KSRTC employee was found dead at his residence in Seshadripuram. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Murthy, 52, a native of Tiptur, who worked as a tools in-charge in the accounts section at the Head office in Shanthinagar, had allegedly consumed poison. His wife and son returned home from their relative’s house only to find him unconscious. <br /><br />He was immediately rushed to a hospital where he died on Thursday, police said. <br /><br />Murthy was depressed that his younger daughter was not yet married, the police added. <br /><br />8 arrested for murders<br /><br />The Electronics City police claimed to have solved two separate murder cases which were reported in May, by arresting eight persons. <br /><br />The police arrested five persons – Tanveer Ilahi, Taheer Pasha, Sheik Muzamil, Imran Pasha and Fazil Ahmed – in connection with the murder of Baba, 30, of Begur. <br />The police said Tanveer Ilahi, who is a distant relative of Baba, was also involved in another murder in Varthur police station limits.<br /><br />Following a fight with Baba in Devarachikannahalli fair, Ilahi and his aides plotted to murder him, the police added. <br /><br />Ilahi invited Baba to a party at an isolated place on NICE Road, where he and his associates hacked Baba to death and dumped the body in a drain one kilometre away from the crime scene, the police said. They threw the weapons in another drain on NICE Road. <br /><br />In another case, the police arrested painters John Lewis, Anthony Raj and Balraj, of Begur, on the charge of murdering Vijay Kumar, 28, of Gadag. <br /><br />The suspects had slit his throat a fortnight ago near Elenahalli Gate at Surakshanagar, Begur, and fled with his cellphone to Velankanni in Tamil Nadu. <br /><br />The police said they had hid the weapons at a farm in Begur which have also been seized. The suspects had sold Vijay’s cellphone to a mobile shop and the police could trace the suspects based on the call details. <br /><br />The three are in police custody for interrogation. <br /><br /></p>
<p>A KSRTC employee was found dead at his residence in Seshadripuram. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Murthy, 52, a native of Tiptur, who worked as a tools in-charge in the accounts section at the Head office in Shanthinagar, had allegedly consumed poison. His wife and son returned home from their relative’s house only to find him unconscious. <br /><br />He was immediately rushed to a hospital where he died on Thursday, police said. <br /><br />Murthy was depressed that his younger daughter was not yet married, the police added. <br /><br />8 arrested for murders<br /><br />The Electronics City police claimed to have solved two separate murder cases which were reported in May, by arresting eight persons. <br /><br />The police arrested five persons – Tanveer Ilahi, Taheer Pasha, Sheik Muzamil, Imran Pasha and Fazil Ahmed – in connection with the murder of Baba, 30, of Begur. <br />The police said Tanveer Ilahi, who is a distant relative of Baba, was also involved in another murder in Varthur police station limits.<br /><br />Following a fight with Baba in Devarachikannahalli fair, Ilahi and his aides plotted to murder him, the police added. <br /><br />Ilahi invited Baba to a party at an isolated place on NICE Road, where he and his associates hacked Baba to death and dumped the body in a drain one kilometre away from the crime scene, the police said. They threw the weapons in another drain on NICE Road. <br /><br />In another case, the police arrested painters John Lewis, Anthony Raj and Balraj, of Begur, on the charge of murdering Vijay Kumar, 28, of Gadag. <br /><br />The suspects had slit his throat a fortnight ago near Elenahalli Gate at Surakshanagar, Begur, and fled with his cellphone to Velankanni in Tamil Nadu. <br /><br />The police said they had hid the weapons at a farm in Begur which have also been seized. The suspects had sold Vijay’s cellphone to a mobile shop and the police could trace the suspects based on the call details. <br /><br />The three are in police custody for interrogation. <br /><br /></p>
