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Body parts sent for DNA test

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, FEB. 1. The Bangalore city police have sent parts of the beheaded body that was found in a lodge in Upparpet police station limits to Hyderabad for a DNA test. The body is believed to be that of a software engineer, A. Rajesh (25), and the police want to ascertain this.

The Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), M.C. Narayanagowda, told The Hindu on Tuesday that the skull, believed to be of the software engineer, which was found in a burial ground, will be subjected to "skull-face superimposition test" at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Madiwala.

Rajesh's parents and friends identified the body as that of Rajesh from clothes worn by him.

The police have arrested Rajesh's friends Nagendra Reddy and Madan Raj (both 25) on the charge of murder. Both are web designers. A city court today remanded Madan Raj in police custody, the police said.

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