Bengaluru, Nov 9 (PTI) Police on Monday recovered the last two bodies of seven members of a family allegedly murdered by a cab driver over domestic disputes, finding them in the Shiradi Ghat forest area.
“Two more bodies have been found in the Shiradi Ghat forest area. The deceased have been identified as Shankar and Nalini. With this, all seven bodies have been recovered,” DCP (North) B S Nemagoud said in a press note.
Police had earlier recovered the bodies of the accused’s wife and mother-in-law from the Yercaud forest area in Salem district of Tamil Nadu.
Two others, identified as Shivakumar and Divya, were found near the Chamundi Hills in Mysuru district, while the body of a seven-year-old boy, Puneeth, was recovered near Nandi Hills.
The accused, cab driver Indusekar alias Sekar, allegedly killed the seven-year-old at his house within the Rajajinagar police station limits in Bengaluru and dumped the bodies at different locations in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, police said.
The case came to light after a missing-person complaint was registered at the Srirampura police station on November 3.
During interrogation, the accused allegedly revealed where he had disposed of the bodies, after which police teams launched searches at various places.
The case was subsequently converted into a murder case and registered at the Rajajinagar police station.
Police said the killings are believed to have taken place over the past 15 to 20 days.
Investigators suspect that the accused may have administered sedatives to the victims before killing them, and are probing whether he turned up the television volume to drown out the noise during the assaults and avoid arousing the neighbours’ suspicion. PTI GMS SSK
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