Chikmagalur, August 28: A body was found in the Bhadra river near Kudremukh in Kalasa hobli on Monday and the local police identified the person as Nawaz (30), who was killed by his wife’s lover in an illicit affair in Bengaluru recently.
Local people who noticed the body of an unidentified person at Echalu stream in the Kudremukh police station limit on Monday informed the police. Under the guidance of circle inspector Ramachandra, diver Bhaskar fished out the body and the police started their investigation to identify the person.
A murder case was registered around a week ago at Peenya in Bengaluru and the police have arrested the accused who said that the body was dumped in the river near Kudremukh. As a body was found in the river near Kudremukh, the local police informed the Bengaluru Varthur police who brought the accused to Kudremukh to identify the body. The police have confirmed that it was body of Nawaz.
Murder due to illicit affair
Both Aysha and Nawaz got married second time after divorce in their earlier marriages. After their second marriage, they have been living in a rented house in Peenya. Meanwhile, Aysha was introduced to Shivakumar recently and it turned into love later, it is said.
In the beginning, Shivakumar did not know that Aysha was married. But after knowing that she was married, Shivakumar wanted to get her by any means. To fulfill his desire of getting Aysha, he planned a plot to kill Aysha’s husband. To execute his plan, he took the help of his friends and called Nawaz for a vehicle on rent on August 20. Informing his wife, Nawaz went out for a trip. But Shivakumar and his friends who called Nawaz under the guise of taking a vehicle on rent, assaulted Nawaz with lethal weapons and slit his throat. After killing him, Shivakumar and his friends took his body to Kudremukh in a car and dumped it into Bhadra river and left, it is said.
When her husband did not turn up, Aysha called him over his mobile phone. But his phone was switched off due to which she has lodged a complaint at Varthur police station. Two days later, Nawaz parents also lodged a complaint. Following the complaints, police checked the call details of Nawaz. During investigation, the police trapped Pawan, one of the friends of Shivakumar, and he spilled the beans. Later, the police arrested the main accused Shivakumar and confirmed that they have dumped the body in the Bhadra river.
Before the Bengaluru police reaching the spot with the accused, the local police have found the body. On Tuesday morning, the Bengaluru police reached Kudremukh with the accused and confirmed that it was Nawaz body.
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New Delhi (PTI): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday expressed regret over his controversial statement calling the people of Gujarat "illiterate", and said he has always had and will continue to have the highest of respect for the people of the state.
In a post on X, the Congress president said, "Some remarks of mine in a recent election speech in Kerala are being deliberately misinterpreted. Even so, I express my sincere regret.
"It was never my intention to hurt the sentiments of the people of Gujarat for whom I have always had and will continue to have the highest of respect."
Kharge on Sunday had sparked a row during his Assembly poll campaign in Kerala, calling the people of Gujarat "illiterate" and claiming they were being "fooled" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
At the same time, Kharge said neither Modi nor Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan could fool the people of Kerala, describing them as "very clever and educated".
"Don’t misguide the people of Kerala. They are very clever and educated. Modiji, Vijayan, you both can fool people who are illiterate in Gujarat or other places, but you cannot fool the people of Kerala," the Congress chief had said.
He made the remark while alleging that both Modi and Vijayan were following the same path, with no difference between them except the parties they lead.
The BJP on Tuesday had demanded an apology from Kharge for his remarks, saying that the comment was "shameless, demeaning and utterly despicable."
Addressing a press conference here, senior BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asked Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to clarify whether they agreed with Kharge's statement.
