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Youth arrested on charge of killing woman

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: On the basis of a mobile phone number, the Fraser Town police have arrested an 18-year-old youth who had allegedly murdered an elderly woman, Kalabai Chandiramani (78), and had made away with U.S. dollars and platinum and gold ornaments from her house in Sindhi Colony a few days ago.

The police gave the name of the arrested as Raju alias Manjunath, a native of Kalli Muddanahalli village in Arakalgud taluk of Hassan district. The police have recovered from him the stolen cash and jewellery.

Kalabai, who was staying alone in a first-floor house in Sindhi Colony in Fraser Town, was found murdered at her house on August 16. Her three sons and daughter are employed abroad.

After a senior police official spoke to Kalabai's daughter-in-law in the U.S. over phone, she told him that she suspected Raju, who worked as a part-time cook at the elderly woman's house, of committing the crime. She told the official that when she had visited her mother-in-law a month ago, Raju had "stolen" a Rs. 500 note from her purse, the police said.

But neither Kalabai's nephew, Deepak, who had hired Raju for the work, nor her domestic help, Jayanthi, who had introduced him to Deepak, knew anything about Raju. During investigation, a woman gave Raju's mobile phone number to the official. The police obtained the call details of the mobile phone and found that several calls were made from the phone to a particular telephone in Kalli Muddanahalli. A police team went to Kalli Muddanahallai and gathered details of the suspect.

On information, a team led by the Fraser Town sub-inspector, R.S.T. Khan, arrested Raju at Saligrama in K.R. Nagar taluk. The police said Raju had hit the woman on her head with a heavy dumbbell and killed her. The police have seized the dumbbell, which Raju had buried in the playground of a school in Fraser Town.

The Commissioner of Police, Ajai Kumar Singh, on Monday gave a reward of Rs. 5,000 to the special team that traced and arrested Raju. The team headed by the Assistant Commissioner of Police (Fraser Town), Victor S. D'Souza, comprised Fraser Town Inspector Rajendra Kumar and constables Riyaz, Prakash and Suresh.

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