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Missing boy found murdered at Babusabpalya

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: An eight-year-old boy was bludgeoned to death and his body was found in a forest area at Babusabpalya in Hennur police station limits on Monday night.

The police said Ashok Kumar, a resident of K.S. Palya at Kammanahalli, went missing from his house on Sunday. Passer-by found his body in the forest area on Monday night. The police said some persons had bludgeoned the boy and abandoned the body in the forest area.

The police have registered a complaint by Kumar’s father Anabu, a construction worker. The police are searching for the culprits.

Case reopened

The Byatarayanapura police have reopened a case of unnatural death of a 40-year-old man on May 3 following the autopsy report that the death was because of strangulation. The police said they found the body of a man near Hosakerehalli Main Road on May 3. As the body remained unclaimed in the Victoria Hospital, the police arranged for the burial of the body after registering it as a case of unnatural death. On Monday, the police received the autopsy report that stated the death to have been caused because of strangulation.

Body found

A charred body of a 40-year-old man was found near a bridge near Sarjapura in Varthur police station limits on Wednesday. The police have registered a case.

Burglaries

A house of a software engineer couple was burgled at Kundanahalli in Mahadevapura police station limits on Monday night. The miscreants have taken away cash and gold ornaments from the house. The police said the incident occurred when the software engineer Jaideep and his wife had left for work.

They returned at night and saw that some persons had entered their house and had made away with cash and gold ornaments. Cash and gold ornaments, all estimated at Rs. 2.5 lakh, were taken away from the house of Krishna Reddy, a clerk in the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company, in 1st Cross Cambridge Road on Monday.

According to Ulsoor police, Mr. Reddy left for work while his wife Saraswati went to Jayanagar in the morning. When Saraswati returned, she saw that some persons had broken some window panes and had made away with cash and gold ornaments.

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