A 20-year-vintage guy in Karnataka`s Hassan district allegedly killed a shipping government, all due to the fact he couldn`t pay for an iPhone he had ordered while it turned into brought via way of means of the sufferer on February 7, police stated on Monday.
The accused, diagnosed as Hemanth Dutt, is a resident of Arasikere metropolis withinside the southern Karnataka district, stated police. He works as a shipping government and is booked beneathneath sections 302 (punishment for homicide) and 201 (inflicting disappearance of evidence) of Indian Penal Code (IPC), stated police. Details of his place of business had been now no longer at once known.
The sufferer, diagnosed as 23-year-vintage Hemanth Naik, labored with store Flipkart and additionally lived withinside the equal metropolis.
“He killed the shipping government due to the fact he couldn’t pay for the iPhone that he ordered. This turned into a hard case for us when you consider that we couldn’t determine out the cause in the back of the incident. There turned into no enmity, combat or crook background,” stated Hassan superintendent of police (SP) Hariram Shankar, including the accused confessed to the crime.
Dutt had ordered a used Iphone 14 from Flipkart with a value of ₹46,000, which turned into to be paid on shipping. On February 7 at round 9.30am, Naik arrived at Dutt`s house in Laxmipura in Arasikere metropolis to supply the iPhone. Dutt requested the shipping government to open the container so he may want to test the telecellsmartphone earlier than procuring it, the police stated. Dutt then invited Naik inner his residence, and requested him to wait, pronouncing his buddies will arrive quickly with the money, they brought.
Dutt then got here out with a knife and stabbed Naik a couple of instances on his neck and chest, killing him at the spot, the police stated. “While Naik turned into waiting, scrolling thru Facebook and Instagram on his telecellsmartphone, the accused attacked him from in the back of via way of means of stabbing him,” Shankar stated, including the accused confessed to his crime.
Dutt used to stay by myself in a 2bhk residence, police stated. “After killing Naik, the accused saved the frame in a gunny bag withinside the toilet of his house for 3 days,” brought Shankar. The SP additionally stated the sufferer`s brother, Manjunath Naik, filed a lacking grievance on February eight and a probe turned into underway.
A 2nd police officer stated Naik had dropped out of university and went to Bengaluru to search for a job. But he lower back to Arasikere and labored as a shipping agent. A 2nd police officer stated Naik had dropped out of university and went to Bengaluru, km away, to search for a job. But lower back to Arasikere and labored as a shipping agent with Ekart Logistics, the logistics and deliver chain arm of Flipkart.
On the night time of February 10, Dutt determined to do away with the frame via way of means of burning it, stated the SP. He carried the frame on his -wheeler to a railway station at the outskirts of the metropolis, burnt it and disposed it. “He poured kerosene and petrol to burn the frame,” the SP stated, including that the police had recovered CCTV photos of the accused looking to dispose the frame.
Police stated the frame turned into recovered on February 11. “The homicide happened on February 7. We observed the frame on February 11. The sufferer`s brother had already filed a lacking grievance. So, we had been looking to tune him, however had been now no longer getting any leads until then. Once we observed the frame, we referred to as the forensic crew to gather evidence. We saved the frame intact for over six hours until the crew got here to gather evidence. Then we referred to as his own circle of relatives who diagnosed him,” the SP stated.
“Once we acknowledged him, we checked his crook background. We notion this (homicide) might be due to a lady he turned into in a courting with, and her mother and father would possibly have objected. The frame turned into now no longer professionally disposed. It turned into disposed on a railway tune which isn’t always a expert hiding place. It turned into hurriedly done,” the SP brought.
The SP additionally stated police later tracked Naik`s cellular area to Dutt`s house. “Naik turned into alleged to supply seven parcels that day. He brought parcels after which he went lacking. Then we tracked Naik`s cellular telecellsmartphone and observed that it turned into final placed at Dutt`s house. A crew of law enforcement officials raided the accused`s residence and observed his cellular telecellsmartphone and 4 different parcels,” he stated.
On Sunday, police arrested Dutt and he’s in judicial custody. “We have readability at the guns used and the collection of events. We have additionally recovered the sufferer`s cellular telecellsmartphone and different objects he had with him for shipping at the day of the incident,” the SP stated.
Arsikere is a small, quiet taluk withinside the Hassan district of Karnataka. It is the second one biggest metropolis withinside the district, demographically.