JOIN USRaju's killer involved in seven murders, five murder attempts
With the arrest of Abid Pasha, prime accused in RSS worker K Raju’s murder case, a fortnight ago, another seven murder and five attempt to murder cases over religious hatred, have come to light during investigation.
According to City Police Commissioner B Dayananda, Pasha was involved in murder of Shashikumar and Parveen Taj of Rajivnagar, Ramesh of Lashkar Mohalla, Harish of Ashoka Road and two students from Hunsur — Vignesh and Sudeendra — and Thyagaraja Pillai of Hunsur. Pasha was also involved in attempt to murder cases that were reported in Dakshina Kannada and Mysuru districts since 2008.
Pasha, a history-sheeter, along with others, had made an attempt to kill advocates Shanti Prasad Hegde and Jagadish Shenava in May 2010 in Dakshina Kannada district. Pasha was arrested by Mangaluru Police, but he managed to obtain bail. Besides, he had also made murder attempts on Ramesh, Anand Pai and Giridhar in Mysuru city.
Pasha’s involvement in all the cases came to light during the investigation, after he was arrested by the City Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths in connection with Raju’s murder case on August 8.
Raju was murdered in Udayagiri in the city on March 13. The commissioner said, “Pasha has confessed about his involvement in all the crime. He is the prime accused in a few murder and murder attempts cases and all of them are owing to religious hatred.”
Old cases
Dayananda said, “On July 12, 2008, Pasha, along with his aides, had killed a salon owner Shashikumar in Rajivnagar in the city. The CID had submitted a ‘C’ report to the court. Shashikumar was killed during early hours, when he was opening his salon. Similarly, on June 9, 2009, Pasha had attacked two people — Ramesh and Anand Pai near Five Lights Circle in the city.Ramesh died due to injuries. In November the same year, the accused had murdered another Ramesh, owner of Ramesh Book Shop on Ashoka Road.
Apart from these, on June 11, 2011, Sudeendra and Vignesh, two students of Mahajana College from Hunsur town, were brutally killed near Chikkaballapur after their parents declined to pay a ransom of Rs 5 crore. Bengaluru CCB police had arrested six persons while Pasha was absconding. Similarly, Pasha had murdered one Thyagaraja Pillai of Hunsur over personal grudge.
Woman murdered
In 2015, Pasha had killed a Muslim woman for ‘anti-Muslim’ activities. Pasha and others had killed Parveen Taj on July 8 at Rajivnagar in the city.
3 more held in RSS activist’s murder
“Mysuru Police Commissioner B Dayananda said, CCB police have detained another three — Ayub Khan (27) of Kalyanagiri, Mohammed Haneef (36) of Azeez Sait Nagar and Hameed Khan (27) of Gouziya Nagar — in connection with RSS activist Raju’s murder case. All the accused were booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. The police have laid a trap to arrest other accused involved in Raju’s case,” the commissioner informed.