Bengaluru techie Payal Sureka murder case: CBI court sentences gym trainer to life imprisonment
New Delhi, Nov 7: A special CBI court in Bengaluru has sentenced a gym instructor to life imprisonment for the murder of an Information Technology professional, officials said on Thursday.
"The special judge for CBI cases, Bengaluru has sentenced James Kumar Ray to undergo life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 1 lakh in a case related to the murder of Payal Sureka, an Information Technology professional," The CBI spokesperson said in a statement Thursday evening.
The court further ordered that the husband of the woman is entitled for the fine amount in the form of compensation, he said.
Bengaluru police had charge sheeted Ray for the murder of Sureka, who was killed at her flat in JP Nagar on December 17, 2010.
The family of the deceased approached the Supreme Court which transferred the case to the CBI for further investigation, he said.
According to the CBI, in 2008, Surekha married Anantha Narayana Mishra, who was running a gymnasium in Bengaluru.
Nearly a year later, Mishra opened another gym in Cuttack with some friends as his partners, he said.
Ray, who was working at the Cuttack gym, allegedly started posing as the owner and misappropriated funds, the CBI said.
Later, Mishra removed Ray from the job which affected the financial position as well as the social status of Ray.
"It was also alleged that Mishra and his father castigated Ray in front of all gym trainees. Ray felt deeply insulted by the harsh words of Mishra and decided to take revenge on them," the spokesperson said.
As revenge he planned to kill Sureka who was living alone in Bengaluru.
After coming to know of Mishra's schedule, who was in Odisha on December 16, 2010, Ray reached the house of the victim in Bengaluru on December 17, he said.
Finding her alone, he killed her by brutally stabbing her with a knife.
After committing the murder, Ray left Bengaluru for Hyderabad, he said.
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Jaya Bachchan raises concern over VIP movements causing road blocks, traffic diversions
New Delhi (PTI): Rajya Sabha Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Amitabh Bachchan on Monday expressed concern over the growing menace of VIP culture affecting vehicular traffic and causing inconvenience to people.
Raising the matter during the Zero Hour in the House, she said roadblocks and traffic diversions due to the movements of VIPs, including politicians, high-ranking officials, and dignitaries, have become a major source of disruption in the daily lives of countless citizens in the country.
"One has travelled all over the world, but has never seen many VIPs and cavalcades going, but they never stop people on the street," Bachchan said.
She also narrated a recent incident when Rajya Sabha MPs, who leave from Shardula Dwar, were stopped as the main door was locked because there was VIP movement.
"We have never faced such humiliation in the last 22 years of mine in this parliament. We are not a threat to any of the VIPs, especially the political lot," she empahsised.
The SP member further said there are roads along the houses of political "big wigs" which remain blocked.
The MP highlighted that not only common citizens, even ambulances get stuck due to VIP movements.
She urged Chairman C P Radhakrishnan to take up the matter with the government.
"Sir, speak to the government. You are the Vice President of this country...this culture has to stop in order to give dignity to the taxpayers of this country who have brought us into this House," Bachchan said.
