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Depressed BPO employee leaps to death Crime notes

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: A native of Bihar working in a business process outsourcing (BPO) company, died after he jumped from the terrace of his three-storeyed apartment in Muniramareddy Layout at Chellaghatta in the city on Tuesday.

Police said 27-year-old Amarkant, who was working with HTMT, a BPO situated in Bommanahalli on Hosur Road, had not turned up for work for the past three days.

Mr. Amarkant is believed to have been depressed over certain unspecified developments at work.

The owner of the apartment, who also stays in the same building, called Mr. Amarkant’s roommate Rupendra Kumar and told him of the suicide after which Mr. Kumar, also from Bihar, lodged a complaint with the Airport police.

Six more held

The police have arrested six more men in connection with last week’s vandalism of vehicles in three separate localities.

The arrested men are suspected to have damaged at least 15 vehicles in Yeshwanthpur area on the night of October 30. In this instance, on Triveni Road, the vandalism was triggered by a gang war, the police said.

The arrested are Syed Nawaz Shafi (26) and Riyaz Ibrahim (22) from Sheriff Nagar near Yeshwanthpur, Ravi Nagaraj alias Onte Ravi (22) of Hebbal, Kiran Rao (21) of Triveni Road, K. Kiran Panneer (19) from K.N. Layout near Yeshwanthpur and B. Ashok Chinnappa (20) from Ambedkar Nagar near Yeshwanthpur.

Killed

A 40-year-old woman riding pillion on her daughter’s scooter was killed near Aralimaradakatte in K.G. Halli on Tuesday when a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus knocked down the vehicle.

According to Fraser Town traffic police, Parvathi of Nagarwara was accompanying her daughter Yamini to Jain College to hand over the examination hall ticket to her other daughter.

The BMTC bus hit the scooter near Aralimaradakatte, and Parvathi fell and was run over.

Local residents protested and demanded action against the bus driver.

Murder solved

The Peenya police have claimed to have solved the murder of Khode Hanumantharayappa, a man with criminal antecedents, with the arrest of four men. Khode was murdered near St. Joseph School in Nelagadaranahalli in Peenya police limits on Sunday night.

The suspects, R. Lakshminarayana alias Lachi (35), Ravi Kuppuswamy (22) from Nelagadaranahalli, R. Vasanth of Jagalur in Chitradurga and G. Venkatesh (20) of Shettigondanahalli in Turuvekere, have been arrested. The police said that Khode was murdered following his misbehaviour with Lachi’s wife.

Chain snatched

A senior citizen, Chandra (65), walking near her house on 3rd cross in Shrinidhi Layout was attacked and robbed of her chain on Monday night, the Subrahmanyapur police said.

Bag snatched

Two motorbike-borne men snatched a bag containing valuables from a software engineer and sped away around 8.45 p.m. on Monday in Koramangala 4th Block.

Manavi Sharma and her husband were going home when they were accosted by the riders who could not be identified as they were wearing helmets.

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