B'luru: Day after elderly woman's body found chopped up in drum, 40-year-old acquaintance arrested
Bengaluru, Feb 26: A day after the dismembered body of a 70-year-old woman was found stuffed inside a drum, her acquaintance was arrested in connection with the killing, police said on Monday.
The accused, identified as Dinesh (40), has been arrested in connection with the murder that took place on Saturday, they said.
During interrogation, the accused confessed to his crime and told interrogators that since he was in debt, he decided to eliminate the elderly woman and steal her jewellery. On the pretext of taking her to a temple, he took her to his house and strangled her, a senior police officer said.
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"After killing her, he took all her gold jewellery ornaments to a jeweller. Then he got to know that except for a pair of earrings, everything else was not real but 'rolled gold' (gold plated). To hide his crime, he chopped up her body into parts and stuffed it inside a drum at a vacant plot near an abandoned house," the officer said.
The deceased, Sushilamma, and her daughter were living in a rented flat in Nisarga Layout in K R Puram. Sushilamma used to go to temples often and sometimes even to her son's house, so the daughter initially did not suspect anything amiss when her mother did not return home on Saturday night, according to the police.
The body was found by the police on Sunday evening from a vacant plot near an abandoned house after local residents complained to the police about a foul smell emanating from the spot.
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PSL match between Karachi Kings and Peshawar Zalmi in Rawalpindi rescheduled
Karachi, May 8 (PTI): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to reschedule Thursday's PSL match between Karachi Kings and Peshawar Zalmi in Rawalpindi after Indian military strikes in the country in retaliation to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam.
The T20 league, which features six franchises and is in its final stages, is currently being staged at the Pindi Stadium.
“The Pakistan Cricket Board, in consultation with all the stakeholders, has decided to reschedule tonight’s HBL PSL X match between Peshawar Zalmi and Karachi Kings. The PCB will announce the revised date in due course,” the cricket board said in a media statement.
The Indian armed forces launched precision missile strikes on nine terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, including the strongholds of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba in Muridke.
The strikes were in response to the attack in Pahalgam in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were gunned down.
