M’lore: Mysterious death of medical Student Rohit at Tannir Bavi; Police register murder case

Media Release

Mangalore, 5 Apr 2014: Almost a fortnight after the incident, the Panambur police on Friday April 4 registered a modified complaint relating to the death of Rohit, a student, and converted it into a murder case. The body of Rohit was found lying by the side of the road along with his motor bike on March 23 near Tannir Bavi beach here. His head was found to have been severed from the torso.

 

The police theory was that Rohit’s head would have hit a sharp object after his motor bike slipped while being driven at high speed, causing the head to be cut off. The parents of Rohit had sent an email to the state home minister recently, expressing strong suspicion over the nature of their son’s death. Based on this complaint, and some evidences the police gathered during their investigation, a police team visited Kollam in Kerala, and got a revised complaint from the student’s parents. The police said that they are now investigating the case, duly treat it as murder.

 

 

Rohit’s father, Radhakrishnan, who works as a lawyer in Bahrain, and mother, Sridevi, a medical practitioner by profession, had visited the city after their son died under mysterious circumstances. At their request, the City Police Commissioner had formed a number of different teams of experts for investigating the case. As the police came across some suspicious evidences during the preliminary inquiries, they went to Kollam to get a fresh complaint from Rohit’s parents.

 

The death of Rohit had earlier been registered as a case of accident. When attention was drawn to the email sent by Rohit’s parents to the home minister, the police commissioner said on Thursday evening that the police need a fresh written complaint for enabling them to modify the case and investigate it from the angle of murder.