Karnataka Tragedy: Wife & Lover Poison Ex-Soldier For ₹2 Crore Insurance; FSL, Police Staff Arrested
· Free Press Journal
Bengaluru: In a shocking incident, a woman and her lover clandestinely poisoned a former soldier to avail ₹ 2 crore insurance money, but got caught three months after meticulously executing their plan.
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Interestingly, a hospital ward boy, FSL officials, an employee of Belagavi City Police Commissioner office and others had helped the couple to hush up the case. However, a WhatsApp status of the lover raised doubts among the family members, who reported the matter to the senior police officials, leading to the investigation.
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The deceased ex-soldier is identified as Sandeep Manjaragi of Yamakanamaradi in Belagavi district. The police have now arrested his wife Suma, her lover Pundalika Dombar, his friend Sachin, Belagavi FSL office senior scientist N Nagaraj, Laboratory assistant Channaiah and First Division Clerk at Belagavi City Police Commissioner office Ashoka Gujanala.
According to police, after returning from the Army, Sandeep was running a tea shop at Yamakanamaradi. Since Pundalika was close to the family, Sandeep had hired him to manage the shop in his absence. Meanwhile, Sandeep was unaware of the illicit relationship between his wife and Pundalika.
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On March 13, Sandeep met with a motorcycle accident and suffered some minor injuries.The two immediately shifted him to JG hospital in the town and Sandeep recovered. However, Suma insisted him to stay in the hospital for one more day to ensure there were no internal injuries. While the hospital had administered saline to Sandeep, with the help of hospital ward boy Rahul, Suma managed to administer poison through saline to Sandeep. He was declared dead the next day.
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However, a WhatsApp status made the investigating officer suspicious and started re-investigating the case. The second FSL analysis in the neighbouring district laboratory confirmed the presence of poison in Sandeep's samples. During the investigation, Pundalika admitted that they had bribed over ₹ three lakh to FSL officials to give a wrong report and his friend Ashok Gujanala had helped him to manipulate the documents.