Within week of escape from police custody, key suspect in Telangana businessman murder nabbed by Karnataka police in Rajasthan

Rana, who is simply a autochthonal of Haryana was arrested for the execution lawsuit of Ramesh Kumar, 54, a Telangana based businessman. The execution of Ramesh Kumar took spot successful Hyderabad but his assemblage was aboriginal recovered burned successful a backstage property successful Suntikoppa, Kodagu.

The execution investigations by the Kodagu constabulary connected the ground of method grounds including visuals from implicit 500 CCTV cameras pb to the apprehension of the murdered businessman’s 2nd wife, Niharika, and her acquaintances, Ankur Rana and Nikhil, a veterinary doctor.

While Niharika and Nikhil were arrested successful Bengaluru, Ankur was nabbed successful Uttar Pradesh. The execution was allegedly committed to summation entree to implicit Rs 8 crore of wealthiness of the businessman, the constabulary probe has revealed.

However, during the process of gathering grounds successful Uppal adjacent Hyderabad wherever the execution allegedly occurred the accused Ankur Rana managed to flight from constabulary custody portion the constabulary enactment was resting astatine a lodge.

Ankur Rana is alleged to person breached escaped from his handcuffs and escaped done a third-floor model with a constabulary vigor connection instrumentality connected October 31.

“He was tracked down to Rajasthan and arrested. He was traced utilizing constabulary quality networks and different methods,” the Kodagu SP said. The fishy had tried to fell his individuality successful Rajasthan but was traced, the constabulary said.

Police are investigating the imaginable relation of Ankur Rana successful crimes successful different parts of India.

How the execution was solved

After the dormant assemblage of the Telangana businessman Ramesh Kumar was discovered successful Suntikoppa successful Kodagu successful aboriginal October 4 peculiar teams of 16 Kodagu constabulary officers were created to transportation retired investigations.

Investigators reviewed CCTV footage from hundreds of cameras, tracking vehicles that had moved done the country astir the clip of the crime. Since the property wherever the assemblage was recovered was located lone a kilometer from the road constabulary looked astatine records for thousands of vehicles successful Madikeri, Suntikoppa, Kushalnagar, and Madhapur to constrictive down suspects.

Eventually, investigators identified a reddish Mercedes Benz, registered successful the sanction of Ramesh Kumar, a 54-year-old existent property businessman from Telangana who had gone missing arsenic a conveyance of interest.

The Kodagu constabulary past liaised with their Telangana counterparts to stitchery inheritance accusation connected Ramesh and his idiosyncratic relationships. As inquiries progressed, suspicion centered connected Ramesh’s 2nd wife, Niharika, and her associate, Dr. Nikhil, a veterinarian, on with a friend, Ankur Rana. The woman Niharika confessed to the transgression successful custody.

Niharika, 29, from Mongeer Nagar, Telangana graduated successful engineering and worked astatine respective companies, wherever she earned a handsome salary.

However, her beingness took a crook portion she was successful Haryana, wherever she became progressive successful a fiscal scam that led to her arrest. Upon her release, she came to Bangalore and joined Ramesh Kumar successful 2018. Ramesh financed her lavish lifestyle, but disputes arose, particularly aft helium refused her request for Rs 8 crore.

Niharika, with Ankur Rana’s help, devised a program to execution Ramesh, constabulary person said. She lured Ramesh to Uppal, Hyderabad, connected October 1, wherever helium was strangled to death. Niharika and her accomplices past transported the assemblage to Kodagu to a java plantation wherever it was acceptable ablaze successful an effort to destruct evidence.

Niharika adjacent filed a missing persons study successful an effort to debar the needle of suspicion.