M’lore: Lance Naik murdered over woman, says Ferozepur SP

TOI

Mangalore, 22 Aug 2012: Senior police authorities in Ferozepur, Punjab, have confirmed that Lance Naik Krishnappa Gowda, 32, who was posted at 507, Army Services Corps (ASC), Ferozepur at the Indo-Pakistan border, was done to death owing to personal animosity.

 

Son of farmer couple Chanana Gowda and Monamma of Balike in Nada in Belthangady in DK district, Krishnappa, who was recently married, may have been killed over a woman, police suspect.

 

Gowda, a non-commissioned officer in the ASC, was initially suspected to have died of cardiac arrest while on sentry duty. It was initially suspected that he may died in hostile fire from across the border.

 

However, Virender Pal Singh, superintendent of police, Ferozepur, has since informed his counterpart Abhishek Goyal here that Krishnappa was the victim of a crime of passion. He did not die of natural causes, he added.

 

Speaking to The Times of India, Goyal said that as per the information given by his Ferozepur counterpart, the ASC authorities were quite reluctant to file a first information report in connection with the incident.

 

"It is only after Ferozepur police pressed for it that ASC authorities relented," Abhishek said adding that ASC authorities are tight-lipped about the whole incident and not forthcoming with facts pertaining to the case.

 

While the Corps of Military Police of Indian Army is expected to conduct an internal inquiry into the circumstances under which Krishnappa died, ASI Vijay Kumar of Cantt PS, who was the duty officer when the incident was reported to local police told The Times of India that Krishnappa’s body in full uniform was found a kilometre away from his sentry post in the early hours of August 13.

 

"The wound injuries on Krishnappa, behind his neck, indicate he was murdered," ASI said.