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Police file charge-sheet in Naveena murder case

Bangalore: The trial of advocate Naveena Srinivas case, the murder that occurred on the premises of Karnataka High Court, has officially begun with the city police filing a voluminous charge-sheet in a local court here recently.

The Vidhana Soudha police, which is investigating the incident, has filed a 200-page charge-sheet against the accused Rajappa Lakshmaiah in the VIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM).

The accused has been charged with under Sections 302 (Murder), 309 (Attempt to commit suicide) and 506 B (Punishment for criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code.

8,000 calls

Advocate S.L. Rajappa (27) allegedly stabbed his friend J.S. Naveena in the first floor of the High Court on July 9, 2010. According to him, he had decided to marry Naveena. “However, Naveena's parents had rejected the marriage proposal when he had approached them as he belonged to a lower caste,” the Vidhana Soudha police told The Hindu.

“We have filed an elaborate charge-sheet in court. The charge-sheet contains documents, including statements and several material pertaining to the case,” the police said.

According to the charge-sheet, from February to July this year, Rajappa and Naveena had conversed at least 8,000 times on mobile phones. The mobile phone call details of the two run into 206 pages.

Charge-sheet details

Rajappa had also recorded dozens of conversations that he had had with Naveena. He had taken several photographs along with her. Besides call details and photographs, the police have collected a number of other documents such as medical reports and post-mortem report.

“We have collected several documents pertaining to their relationship. Details about the collected documents and recorded evidences have been included in the charge-sheet,” he said.

Naveena, the daughter of J.V. Sreenivas Reddy and C.L. Savithramma of Chikballapur district, was an alumnus of Kolar Degree College. She enrolled with the Karnataka State Bar Council (KSBC) in 2009.

Rajappa was also an alumnus of Kolar Degree College and a native of Sidlaghatta. He allegedly stabbed Naveena with a pen knife and later tried to kill himself. However, he survived, according to the charge-sheet. He was staying in a house in Wilson Garden.

Cassette

Before killing Naveena, he recorded a cassette about his relationship with Naveena and copied several photos that he had taken along with Naveena in some CDs. He had stored some evidences in a pen drive and in his mobile phone too.

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