Bengaluru police arrest security guard in tragic neighbourhood murder

In a tragic turn of events, Bengaluru police have apprehended a 27-year-old security guard from Odisha, identified as Krishna Chandra Sethi, in relation to the murder of a 21-year-old woman. Sethi was stationed at a technological park located in CV Raman Nagar, and the ill-fated woman lived in Kalaburagi with her sister and mother, residing in Mahadevapura.

The police report indicated the sequence of events began yesterday when the woman was reportedly absent from her home from 8pm onward. After preparing dinner, she had exited her residence and failed to return. This led her anxious sister to report her absence to the Mahadevapura police station.

In a shocking twist, the police discovered the woman’s body at 5am today in front of her home, concealed within a drum. An officer familiar with the unfolding tragedy briefed that Sethi had coerced her into his house when she had stepped out the previous night. His alleged attempt to sexually assault her had led to her outcry for aid, which ultimately resulted in him strangling her life away.

The police narration sheds light on Sethi’s actions following the murder. The killer is said to have kept the wrapped body within his home initially. However, he transported the corpse to its unthinkable final resting place in the early hours of today, outside her residence. The police noted that the victim, along with her sister, had been working at a petrol bunk in the vicinity, underscores the close residential proximity of the victim and the perpetrator.

S Girish, the deputy commissioner of Police (Whitefield), initially voiced their suspicions of unnatural death as the body bore no discernible injury marks. However, a preliminary investigation quickly revealed suffocation as the tragic cause of death.

A detailed investigation led the police to identify that the victim had not ventured beyond the immediate neighbourhood. As a result, further questioning of neighbours cast light on Sethi as a potential suspect, eventually confessing to the heinous crime. The Mahadevapura police station has now registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Sethi under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which regards the punishment for committing murder. The tragic incident serves as a chilling reminder of the cloak of security we share with potential dangers.