Kodagu police have done a commendable job in arresting three persons including a woman under the charge of murder in connection with the case of a half-burnt dead body found in an estate under Sunticoppa police station limits recently.
According to the police who solved a most sensitive case arrested Niharika P. of Mongir Nagar, Yadadri District, Telangana, currently residing in Ramamurthy Nagar, Bangalore, (29), Nikhil Myreddy (28) of Vasavi Nagar, Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh, currently residing in Ramamurthy Nagar, Bangalore, and Ankur Rana (30), a resident of Karnal Garunda, Haryana State.
District Superintendent of Police (SP) K. Ramarajan, who gave information about this case in a press conference in Madikeri, said that the half-burnt body belonged to Niharika’s husband, Ramesh Kumar (54).
Taking the case of half-burnt dead body in the coffee plantation seriously, the police have taken up the investigation and checked around 500 cctv cameras to find the accused.
When the details of the suspected car used in the crime were scrutinized, it was revealed that it belonged to Ramesh Kumar Hyderabad. Based on this, when the investigation was intensified, it was confirmed that Niharika was the second wife of Ramesh Kumar.
Niharika, who hatched a plot to kill her husband with the intention of getting Rs. 8 crore from the property sale, got the help of her friend Ankur Rana from Haryana. On the pretext of dropping off, the two people who came in the car of husband Ramesh Kumar stopped the car on the side near the highway between Uppal-Bhuvangiri. Then the two together murdered Ramesh Kumar. Later Niharika comes to Horamavu in Bengaluru and informs her friend Nikhil about the murder. With the intention of destroying the body so that no one could find it, the accused brought it to the garden near Suntikoppa and set it on fire and returned in the car informed SP K. Ramarajan
After 10 consecutive days of investigation, Niharika and Nikhil were first arrested and after thorough interrogation, later, Ankur Rana, who was hiding after the murder, was arrested in Haridwar, SP said.
Under his guidance SP K. Ramarajan, Additional SP Sundar RajKS and DySP Gangadharappa RA of Somwarpet sub division. a total of 4 special investigation teams of 16 police officers investigated and succeeded in cracking the challenging case.
