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Lab technician killed in City

Last Updated 29 May 2009, 19:37 IST

The police said that Palani, a native of Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu, is suspected to have strangled Jithin George (27) of Bommasandra on Hosur Road with a mobile phone charger cable. Quoting Jithin’s parents, who rushed here from Kollam in Kerala after they were informed of their daughter’s death, police said Palani would harass her to marry him.

She is believed to have told her parents that she was fed up with Palani’s behaviour and had reported him to the human resource department of the hospital a couple of days back.

Palani is suspected to have absconded after the murder. He was last seen with Jithin in the lab, in which both worked, minutes before the crime is believed to have been committed. This has strengthened the police’s suspicion that he might have eliminated her and then escaped. Jithin’s body was found in a third-floor lab at Apollo. A house-keeper, who entered the lab to sweep it, discovered the body first. A cell phone charger was found wrapped around her neck.

According to the police, Jithin moved to Bangalore two years back. Around the same time, Palani also moved to the City and took up a job at Narayana Hrudayalaya in the Bommasandra Industrial Area. He met Jithin there and was soon attracted to her. He proposed love although she did not reciprocate. He continued to woo her but without much success. In March this year, Jithin quit Narayan Hrudayalaya and moved to Apollo Hospitals. Within days, Palani also quit his job there and joined Apollo Hospitals. Since then, he would often urge her to marry him.

As always, her response would be in the negative.

On Thursday, Palani’s day shift duty ended at 6 pm. He, however, stayed back at the hospital. When Jithin turned up for her shift at 8 pm, Palani met her in the lab around 1 am, proposing marriage yet again. This led to a heated exchange between the two. Police said one of Palani’s colleagues found him in the lab well past midnight. Police said after the colleague left the lab, Palani, in a fit of rage, allegedly strangled Jithin and then fled the scene of the crime. The body was taken to Victoria Hospital where postmortem was conducted.

When contacted, City police commissioner Shankar Bidari told Deccan Herald that crimes of passion and homicides related to sexual assaults had increased by about 70-80 per cent in the last one year.

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(Published 29 May 2009, 19:37 IST)

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