It was a week of anxious wait for the family of 14-year-old Kiran Kumar.
When the police did not respond to their missing complaint, Kiran’s parents, Ravi Kumar and Pramila, started looking for him on their own.
After the school van driver told them that Kiran had alighted at the designated stop, they started looking for clues to know where their son could have gone. “We enquired about my son with the local shopkeepers, neighbours, friends and family members who may have known his whereabouts. We then started seeing CCTV camera footages from the shops,” Ravi Kumar told presspersons.
The parents then stumbled upon the all-important clue from the CCTV camera footage of a jewellery shop at Nagarbhavi Circle. “The footage showed Kiran riding pillion on Manjunath’s bike and we could identify them clearly,” he said.
They handed over the footage to the police, who summoned Manjunath for questioning. After he confessed to the crime, Manjunath took the police to the crime scene from where the police recovered the partially decomposed body.
“The school uniform was still on the body and the schoolbag was found near the spot. Manjunath had slit the boy’s throat with a blade,” a senior police officer said.
