A 48-year-old woman, Doreen Kumar has been accused of hiring contract killers to murder her
54-year-old husband whom she saw as a “serial philanderer”. She paid
them Rs 2 lakh upfront and offered a further Rs 28 lakh after the
killing.
Kumar, a resident of Jogupalya in Halasuru, India, has
been arrested, along with four suspected assassins, for the gruesome
murder of her moneylender husband, G Kumar.
The victim was found
murdered near the railway track close to the Kalapalli cemetery in
Baiyappanahalli, east Bengaluru, on April 6, 2017.
According to the police, Doreen, was disgusted with her husband’s “philandering ways”. Kumar would
sexually exploit women borrowers when they defaulted on loan repayment.
He would bring random women into his house and seek sexual favours from
them.
His womanising had been going on for several years now.
Doreen knew it all but had kept quiet. But she could not tolerate it any
more and decided to eliminate her husband. But taking out a man of
Kumar’s size was a knotty question.
She came across one of her
husband’s customers, a man named Sridhar who had borrowed Rs 5 lakh from
him and was struggling to repay it. She got close to him and confided
in him. She offered him Rs 30 lakh for the job, besides waiving the
loan. She paid him Rs 2 lakh upfront.
Sridhar, police say, roped
in four of his friends — Prabhu (35), Patrick (25), Dinesh (29) and
Avinash (30) — who all had criminal record. He got a woman named Clara
to get Kumar to the crime spot.
Clara hired another woman, Revathi, for
the job. Revathi called up Kumar and introduced herself as Lakshmi. She
called him to the railway track on the pretext of taking a loan to pay
her four children’s school fees.
Kumar walked into the trap. As
soon as he turned up, the assassins hacked him with sharp weapons.
Interestingly, Doreen herself went to the jurisdictional Baiyappanahalli
police station and lodged a complaint. As police got to work, they
checked Kumar’s call detail record and found that the last caller was
Clara.
They picked her up for questioning. Clara led them to
Dinesh. He couldn’t withstand sustained interrogation and spilled the
beans. He told the police that he, along with Avinash and Patrick, had
attacked Kumar at the behest of Sridhar and Prabhu. Police picked up
Doreen soon afterwards.
A senior police officer suspected that
Sridhar and Doreen were planning a “life together” once Kumar was
eliminated. Police have seized Rs 1.4 lakh in cash from the suspects.
Avinash is absconding while Clara and Revathi are under surveillance.
Police are still investigating whether the women were part of the murder
conspiracy.
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