Man dies after son held for 'kidnap'

A 73-year-old man died of cardiac arrest after his son was arrested by Bangalore police for allegedly kidnapping and marrying a girl, a few months ago.

Police have given the name of dead as Somashekhar, a resident of Mooranadu, near Madikeri.

Deviprasad, the son of Somashekhar, met Ramya, a resident of Bangalore, through a social networking site eight months ago and they fell in love. Ramya’s family was against their marriage.

But the couple tied the knot at Ashwini Temple in Madikeri in May and also registered their marriage on June 7. They stayed together for three months.

Missing complaint

On August 28, Deviprasad lodged a complaint at Madikeri Rural police station stating that Ramya had gone missing and suspected that her parents could have kidnapped her.

However, Ramya’s father,  who is a jeep driver for a senior police officer in Bangalore, lodged a kidnap case against Deviprasad at Siddapura police station (Bangalore) on September 1.

In the wee hours of September 2, Ramya’s family members along with a few policemen barged into the house of Deviprasad.

They allegedly manhandled Deviprasad and pushed his father, who had diabetes and blood pressure, before arresting the former.

Somashekar, who suffered cardiac arrest was rushed to a private hospital in Madikeri. Shocked by his son’s arrest, he died of heart attack in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Released on parole

Deviprasad, who was arrested and taken to Bangalore, was produced before a court and was sent to judicial custody. It is learnt that Deviprasad has been released on parole following the death of his father.

Mysore Range IGP Ramachandra Rao said an impartial and comprehensive inquiry will be conducted into the incident.

Kamal Pant, Additional Commissioner (Law and Order), Bangalore, said that stringent action would be initiated against any officer found guilty in the incident.

H S Revanna, DCP (South) the divisional DCP under whose jurisdiction Siddapura police station lies, said that the Madikeri police had registered a case over the death of Somashekhar. case.

He said that they were waiting for the autopsy report and also the investigation report of Madikeri police who are trying to establish whether Siddapura police really assaulted the elderly man leading to his eventual death.

Strict action

He said that if the investigations revealed the involvement of policemen in Somashekar’s death, strict action will be taken against them. Siddapura police refused to comment on the issue.
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'Wife conspires with lover to kill husband in Mysore'

MYSORE: A wife and her lover have been arrested for conspiring to kill her husband in Mysore recently.
Metagalli police said Bhavya of Mandya district and her lover Raghavendra have been arrested on charges of killing Bhavya's husband Nagappa Kattimani previous week. The incident came to light a day after Nagappa was cremated.
Inspector H R Vivekananda told TOI that Bhavya and Raghavendra conspired to eliminate Nagappa, a mason, as he was bothering Bhavya after he came to know their alleged love affair. As per plan, Raghavendra took Nagappa to a liquor shop and consumed liquor heavily at Nagappa's native Shyadnalli on August 15. Later, he took him near Varuna canal and pushed him inside around 10.30pm.
Bhavya who was aware of this remained silent and on the next day, August 16, she made a hue and cry that her husband Nagappa who went for nature call on the morning has been missing. Later, she pretended that her husband may have fallen into the canal. Following the incident, a bunch of villagers launched a search for his body voluntarily and later found his body a kilometre away from the spot on August 18. The same day he was cremated without alerting cops.
But a day after cremation, a section of villagers' suspected foul play and then Bhavya spilled the beans that she had conspired in killing her husband. Later, Nagappa's brother Chenappa Kattimani lodged a police complaint.
Bhavya and Raghavendra who were arrested on Tuesday have been remanded to police custody. Nagappa leaves behind a son and daughter aged 3years and 6 years respectively.
This is second such incident in Mysore wherein wife had conspired with lover to kill husband over their love affair in the last two years. Similarly, Rekha conspired with her lover Umesh to kill her lecturer-husband Ravi in August 2011.

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