Bengaluru police apprehended cab driver Indushekhar after discovering him in a car with his 17-year-old daughter and the 10-year-old son of murder victims Shankar and Nalini. The suspect had collected the child under the guise of taking him to meet his parents on a temple pilgrimage. During the journey, the suspect discarded two gunny bags suspected of containing the parents' remains before holding the minor against his will. The rescued child has since been safely returned to the custody of his grandmother.
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The grandmother's initial report regarding the missing couple helped law enforcement trac…: The grandmother's initial report regarding the missing couple helped law enforcement track down the suspect.
Indushekhar confessed to investigators that he intended to murder the ten-year-old boy.: Indushekhar confessed to investigators that he intended to murder the ten-year-old boy.
Authorities suspect the two discarded gunny bags unloaded from the car trunk contained th…: Authorities suspect the two discarded gunny bags unloaded from the car trunk contained the parents' remains.
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BENGALURU: When police closed in on cabby Indushekhar near a photocopy shop in Ulsoorgate Wednesday, they found two children in his car: his 17-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old boy, the son of murder victims
Shankar and
Nalini.
The unsuspecting boy had spent time with Indushekhar, unaware that his parents were dead. According to police, the accused confessed that he had been waiting for an opportunity to kill the boy too.
At Rajajinagar police station Friday, the rescued boy sat beside his grandmother, Thungamma, who had first raised the alarm after realising that her daughter and son-in-law had disappeared. Devastated, she refused to eat. When a woman constable at the station failed to persuade her to have lunch, the cops asked the boy to try. “Grandma, eat, or you won’t get any strength. You’re already weak,” he told her. She ate a little to reassure him.
The boy later told TOI that Indushekhar picked him up from his home in Srirampura last Saturday evening, saying his parents had gone on a pilgrimage. That night, Indushekhar took him to his home near…
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