<p>Railway police have arrested a 24-year-old man for killing his sister on Monday suspecting her of having an affair. </p>.<p>Although they initially thought the deceased Magala was a minor, they ascertained during the probe that she was 20 years old.</p>.<p>In the early hours of Monday, a resident in an apartment complex close to the Horamavu railway underpass alerted the police to someone placing a dead body on the railway track.</p>.<p>The Hoysala patrol police rushed to the spot and removed the body from the track as a goods<br />train was about to cross the place in five minutes’ time. They later reported the incident to the railway police. </p>.<p>Police checked the video feeds in nearby CCTV cameras and found a man <br />carrying the woman’s body in an auto-rickshaw and leaving it on the railway track. Based on the clue, police detained Ravi Kiran, a Horamavu resident. </p>.<p>Ravi told police that he suspected his sister Magala of having an affair with someone.</p>.<p>So he strangled her with her dupatta and later tried to lay the body on the tracks to make it appear like a suicide. </p>.<p>“We’re waiting for the post-mortem report to confirm if the woman was pregnant,” an investigating officer said, adding that Ravi has been sent to judicial custody.</p>
<p>Railway police have arrested a 24-year-old man for killing his sister on Monday suspecting her of having an affair. </p>.<p>Although they initially thought the deceased Magala was a minor, they ascertained during the probe that she was 20 years old.</p>.<p>In the early hours of Monday, a resident in an apartment complex close to the Horamavu railway underpass alerted the police to someone placing a dead body on the railway track.</p>.<p>The Hoysala patrol police rushed to the spot and removed the body from the track as a goods<br />train was about to cross the place in five minutes’ time. They later reported the incident to the railway police. </p>.<p>Police checked the video feeds in nearby CCTV cameras and found a man <br />carrying the woman’s body in an auto-rickshaw and leaving it on the railway track. Based on the clue, police detained Ravi Kiran, a Horamavu resident. </p>.<p>Ravi told police that he suspected his sister Magala of having an affair with someone.</p>.<p>So he strangled her with her dupatta and later tried to lay the body on the tracks to make it appear like a suicide. </p>.<p>“We’re waiting for the post-mortem report to confirm if the woman was pregnant,” an investigating officer said, adding that Ravi has been sent to judicial custody.</p>
