BANGALORE: The Bangalore police on Thursday arrested Gururaj Kishore, an employee of Aviva 24/7 business process outsourcing (BPO) unit, on the charge of murdering his colleague Tania Banerjee, whose body was found in Shiradi Ghats in Sakaleshpur Rural police station limits in Hassan district on Wednesday.

The police said Kishore (27) was "madly in love" with Tania (32) and intended to marry her. But, he was angry with her as she reportedly moved with other men.

He was also unhappy with her "high-society lifestyle".

After finishing their work at 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the two left their office in Kishore's car. While travelling, Kishore "strongly advised" Tania to "mend her ways". This led to a heated argument between them. Kishore stopped the car near a commercial complex on C.V. Raman Road in Sadashivanagar, held Tania by her neck and repeatedly stabbed her in the abdomen, the police charged.

Commissioner of Police Neelam Achuta Rao told presspersons that after murdering Tania, Kishore took her body in his car and dumped it in Shiradi Ghats. On his way to Shiradi Ghats, to create an alibi, around 11.30 p.m. he sent an SMS from Tania's mobile phone to her two friends saying that she was going to Kolkata, he said.

Asked whether anyone else had helped Kishore in shifting Tania's body to Shiradi Ghats, the Commissioner said the investigation so far had revealed that Kishore had done it all by himself.

After dumping the body, he had thrown away the knife and Tania's mobile phone.

Our Hassan Staff Correspondent writes:

According to the autopsy report, Tania's body bore 35 stab wounds. Her lungs had been punctured and kidneys damaged. She was not sexually assaulted.

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