<p> <br />While the police claimed it is a case of suicide, the youth’s family members suspected that he was murdered. The police now await the post mortem report. <br /><br />The police said, the youth was found writhing on the lawns of the apartment on Friday afternoon. He was soon rushed to the Victoria Hospital where he succumbed to injuries.<br /><br />From the college identity card recovered from his pocket, the police identified him as Santosh Kumar (24), a resident of Tilak Nagar, a college dropout who had quit studies three years back. <br /><br />On inspection of the spot where the incident had occurred, the police found that the windows of all the apartment were closed except a window of the sixth floor flat. The police suspected that the youth could have fallen from the sixth floor.<br /><br />During investigation, it was learnt that the building premises was well secured with security guards manning round the clock. <br /><br />There were 23 labourers working on the fourth floor of the building. But the police are still clueless as to how the youth had managed to enter the premises. <br /><br />Kumar’s uncle alleged that he was murdered somewhere else and the body was thrown inside the premises to pass it of as a suicide. <br /><br />Two robbed <br /><br />In two separate incidents, a cab driver employed with a call centre and a motorcyclist were robbed of their valuables at Rajarajeshwarinagar and Mahadevapur on Thursday.<br /><br />Cab driver Akram Pasha was returning after dropping the employees when four persons waylaid him near Seshadripuram petrol bunk. They threatened him at knife-point forcing him to sit in the back seat and drove the vehicle near Rajarajeshwarinagar where they allegedly robbed him of a cellphone, Rs 300 in cash, and fled with the vehicle. <br /><br />In another incident, two eunuchs waylaid a motorcyclist Manjunath on the Outer Ring Road in Mahadevapura and robbed him of Rs 7,000 in cash and a cellphone.<br /><br />Burglar nabbed<br /><br />The Mico Layout police have nabbed Balaraj (28) of Attur in Yelahanka and recovered gold ornaments worth Rs three lakh from him. <br /><br />He confessed to have burgled three houses in Mico Layout and Tilak Nagar area. <br />Earlier he was arrested by the Tilak Nagar police but after coming out on bail, he went underground.<br /><br />No clue on kidnap<br /><br />Even after twenty four hours police are clueless about the Baldwin College student who was allegedly kidnapped when he was on way to the college on Thursday.<br /><br />Eighteen-year-old Umrez Khan, a resident of HSR Layout, had left for his college in the morning.<br /><br />The same day afternoon, his father Aziz Khan, a wholesale fruit seller of Huskur, received a call from an unidentified caller who said his son was in his custody and demanded Rs 25 lakh for his release.<br /><br />“That was the last call Aziz Khan received on Thursday about the ransom. Since then there has been no call,” said the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Madivala Circle. <br /><br />A team has been constituted to solve the crime, he added. <br /></p>
<p> <br />While the police claimed it is a case of suicide, the youth’s family members suspected that he was murdered. The police now await the post mortem report. <br /><br />The police said, the youth was found writhing on the lawns of the apartment on Friday afternoon. He was soon rushed to the Victoria Hospital where he succumbed to injuries.<br /><br />From the college identity card recovered from his pocket, the police identified him as Santosh Kumar (24), a resident of Tilak Nagar, a college dropout who had quit studies three years back. <br /><br />On inspection of the spot where the incident had occurred, the police found that the windows of all the apartment were closed except a window of the sixth floor flat. The police suspected that the youth could have fallen from the sixth floor.<br /><br />During investigation, it was learnt that the building premises was well secured with security guards manning round the clock. <br /><br />There were 23 labourers working on the fourth floor of the building. But the police are still clueless as to how the youth had managed to enter the premises. <br /><br />Kumar’s uncle alleged that he was murdered somewhere else and the body was thrown inside the premises to pass it of as a suicide. <br /><br />Two robbed <br /><br />In two separate incidents, a cab driver employed with a call centre and a motorcyclist were robbed of their valuables at Rajarajeshwarinagar and Mahadevapur on Thursday.<br /><br />Cab driver Akram Pasha was returning after dropping the employees when four persons waylaid him near Seshadripuram petrol bunk. They threatened him at knife-point forcing him to sit in the back seat and drove the vehicle near Rajarajeshwarinagar where they allegedly robbed him of a cellphone, Rs 300 in cash, and fled with the vehicle. <br /><br />In another incident, two eunuchs waylaid a motorcyclist Manjunath on the Outer Ring Road in Mahadevapura and robbed him of Rs 7,000 in cash and a cellphone.<br /><br />Burglar nabbed<br /><br />The Mico Layout police have nabbed Balaraj (28) of Attur in Yelahanka and recovered gold ornaments worth Rs three lakh from him. <br /><br />He confessed to have burgled three houses in Mico Layout and Tilak Nagar area. <br />Earlier he was arrested by the Tilak Nagar police but after coming out on bail, he went underground.<br /><br />No clue on kidnap<br /><br />Even after twenty four hours police are clueless about the Baldwin College student who was allegedly kidnapped when he was on way to the college on Thursday.<br /><br />Eighteen-year-old Umrez Khan, a resident of HSR Layout, had left for his college in the morning.<br /><br />The same day afternoon, his father Aziz Khan, a wholesale fruit seller of Huskur, received a call from an unidentified caller who said his son was in his custody and demanded Rs 25 lakh for his release.<br /><br />“That was the last call Aziz Khan received on Thursday about the ransom. Since then there has been no call,” said the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Madivala Circle. <br /><br />A team has been constituted to solve the crime, he added. <br /></p>
