Kundapur: Kundapur Police on Monday arrested the accused in connection with the murder case of Gulabi who was killed at her residence on 28 February.

The accused has been identified as Raviraj (31), a resident of Sulkodu in Kundapur Taluk.

According to the police, Raviraj was arrested near Sidhapur Petrol Bunk on Monday. And a car in which he was travelling was seized from him.

Raviraj, was a neighbour of Gulabi and knew her from 2008. Both had good relationship and were helping each other with financial assistance time and again. Raviraj was working in a Cashew nuts factory and used to stay in a residence provided by the employer.

According to the police Raviraj was not working in the factory for last few days and was in need of financial assistance. On February 28, he approached Gulabi and sought her gold ornaments to avail loan from finance companies on it. When Gulabi refused to give her gold ornaments, irked Ravi killed Gulabi and fled the scene.

After the murder, a special team was found headed by Addl. SP Kumar Chandra under the supervision of SP Nisha James to investigate the matter. The team successfully nabbed Raviraj and cracked the case.

On Monday, after the arrest of Raviraj, he was taken to Gulabi’s house (Crime Scene) for investigations. Curious about what was happening, Raviraj’s wife who did not know about the role of her husband in the murder also came to the house of Gulabi, where she was assaulted by the family of Gulabi. The police then handled the situation and sent her back.

The police also added that the jewellery which was stolen by Ravi from Gulabi, was lend to the finance companies in Bengaluru and Kundapur by Ravi to avail loan.

Sridhar Naik, Kundapur police station officer Harish, staff members Venkataramana Devadiga, Manjunath, Mohan Shiruru, Santhosh, Madhu, Santosh Kumar, Ratnakar Shetty, Santosh Korawadi, Sujit, Adarsh, Chandrashekhar, Sridhar, Vijaya and technical staff were also part of the investigating team.

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