Murder most foul: Cops call on public to help find missing head


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Bangalore Mirror

Bangalore. 9 October 2014:

A couple residing in Mangammana Palya off Hosur Road had strangulated the man and chopped of the head which they threw in a storm water drain off Mysore Road. Victim’s family says they cannot conduct final rites until the head is found and police have mounted an unprecedented search

 

When Kalasipalya police were alerted by passersby that a bag containing the torso of a man was lying near the bus stand on October 3, it resulted in a singular investigation — to establish the identity of the man and to track down his murderers. Having accomplished those tasks — rather easily — police are now on a remarkable hunt to find the man’s head.

 

Family members of the murdered man have told police that they cannot conduct the last rites until the man’s head is found. Their religion does not permit it, they say. Under immense pressure from the family, police have mounted a massive hunt. They say the man’s head was disposed off in a storm water drain in JJ Nagar, off Mysore Road. Police are now conducting a search of the drain. The drain empties into the Cauvery at Sangam. Police though are giving it their best shot. They have distributed pamphlets to people residing in the vicinity of the drain, requesting their help. An inspector has even posted a similar message on Twitter. 

 

The bag containing the dismembered and headless body was ’discovered’ by a stray dog which had tried to get at the contents. A search of the area by the police yielded another similar bag containing the man’s legs. The head and hands were missing. 

 

The challenge was to establish the identity of the man. Police latched on to a big clue when they found that the man had been circumcised. They deduced he was a Muslim. 

 

 

With that as a starting point, police inspector GS Anil Kumar got an Urdu daily to publish an article and a picture of the torso of the man. Police also printed pamphlets of the details which they distributed around mosques in and around KR Market, JJ Nagar, Chamarajpet and surrounding areas. A cutting of the article in the Urdu paper was also sent to mosques in Bangalore and areas such as Denkanikottai in Tamil Nadu near the state border.

 

It was a masterstroke as a young man from Denkanikottai, who had seen a cutting of the article at a mosque there, approached them saying his brother had visited the city and had not returned. But he could not identify the torso. Police, however, got him to ask his sister-in-law to take a look. Based on a scar from a surgery on the leg, the woman told police that it was indeed the body of Sameeulla, 35, her missing husband. On securing his cell phone call details, police tracked down the person he had last spoken with — Reshma, a housewife residing in Mangammana Palya near Hosur Road.

 

On sustained questioning, Reshma admitted that she had been having an affair with Sameeulla. Reshma told police that on October 2, Sameeulla had called her saying that he would meet her at her house. She pleaded with him not to come since her husband was at home, but Sameeulla still landed at her house at around 9 pm. Reshma managed to persuade her husband and children to sleep on the terrace while she dealt with Sameeulla inside the house.

 

She placated him by giving him something to eat, but he insisted on sleeping with her. Muktiyar, sensing something amiss, stumbled on Sameeulla scantily clad in a dhoti in a first-floor room of his house. It led to a huge brawl resulting in the husband and wife strangulating Sameeulla with a piece of wire. It was almost 12 midnight by then. 

 

After drinking freshly-made tea, the couple decided to hack the body up and throw the parts away. They wrapped the torso in a polythene bag which they placed in another plastic bag. The head, hands and legs were similarly packed in separate bags. 

 

At around 8 am on October 3, the couple hired an auto and disposed of the bag containing the head in the storm water drain in JJ Nagar. They returned home, but set out again to dispose of the other bags containing the torso and legs at Kalasipalaya. 

 

Tahseena, Sameeulla’s widow, told BM, "We cannot perform the final rites since the head is missing. We have requested the police to find the head." Kalasipalya police have formed a team headed by inspector Kumar to find the head. The search party had reached Byramangala Lake on Wednesday evening when a halt was called for the day. Police say they will resume on Thursday morning.

 

Police say Reshma is a distant relative of Sameeulla. Both are from Denkanikottai, but she had moved to the city after marrying Muktiyar. 

 

 

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