Parmesh S Jain
The Electronic city police on Thursday arrested a gang of seven including the second husband who along with his associates hacked his wife to death on Hosa road on Monday.
The police also arrested the daughter of the deceased for abetting the murder.
The accused have been identified as Naveen Kumar,second husband of Archana Reddy,his associates Santosh,Anoop,Anand,Narendra and Deepak along with the daughter (Yuvika Reddy).
Senior officer told media persons,on Monday night a Murder case was reported in Electronic City in which a group of assailants murdered a woman in front of her minor in the Hosa road signal while she was returning home.
The assailants followed her and when the signal was red the assailants dragged her out of SUV and hacked her to death with lethal weapons and escaped from the scene.
Senior officers as,Addl CP East,S Murugan, DCP Southeast Srinath Mahadev Joshi ACP Pawan Kumar PI,Anil kumar and his team rushed to spot and cordoned off the area.
After inspecting the spot and collecting stock of the situation senior officer said a special teams has been formed by DCP Southeast Srinath Mahadev Joshi under the supervision of ACP Pawan Kumar to nab the assailants.
A team headed by PI,Anil Kumar HD,and crime team swung into action and based on complaint by vicitm son the team took up the investigation and with the technology skill and with police investigation skills the team picked Naveen the second husband of vicitm Archana Reddy and during investigation he confessed the crime and revealed how they murdered Archana Reddy to take over her property and lead lavish life.
The team grilled him further who spilled the beans and said that they took help of Archana’s daughter who passed on the information to him about Archana movements.
Based on which on Monday night the accused Naveen Kumar,followed the SUV of Archana Reddy,42,while she was returning home with son and other family members on Hosa road junction.
The accused intercepted the car,dragged her out and hacked her to death in front of her minor son.
The police later track down Naveen and his associate Santosh and based on their information,arrested others.
Investigations so far revealed that Naveen and Archana used to have frequent fights over financial related issues and the couple approached Jigani police twice and counseled .
Naveen decided to eliminate Archana to take over her property and took the help of daughter Yuvika Reddy.
It is even found that Victim daughter Yuvika Reddy was in relationship with Naveen husband of Archana Reddy and to lead a happy life they decided to kill her and take all her property and lead a lavish life.
The Electronic city police have seized the car,bikes and the lethal weapons used by the accused for the murder and further investigation is on.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan, DCP Southeast,Srinath Mahadev Joshi,ACP, Pavan N,PI,Anil Kumar HD,PSIs,as,Mahesh, Mallaiahanavar,Eshwar Vannur,and crime staff as,Nagesh M,Raghu NS,Santhosh Kumar, Nagaraj,Manjunath,Vittal,Basangowda Rajpur, Basavaraj Shelikari and others has been appreciated for the exemplary and meticulous investigation done by them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added and further investigation in the case will be carried out by PI, Electronic City Anil Kumar HD.
