Trio arrested for murder, dumping body at railway station in Bengaluru

Three people have been arrested for murdering a woman and dumping her body in a plastic barrel at a railway station in Bengaluru, police said on Thursday.  The accused have been identified as Kamal, 21; Tanveer Alam, 28, and Shakib, 25. All three hailed from Araria district in Bihar and worked as coolies at City Market in Bengaluru.

According to Baiyappanahalli Railway Police, the victim Tamanna was married to one Intikhab of Araria district. Police said Intikhab and one of the accused Nawab were brothers. During the investigation, police found that the Nawab was angry because Tamanna, 27, had previously married another man, Afroze, and was separated before she eloped with Intikhab and allegedly talked him into marrying her. Afroz was also a relative of the Nawab. Nawab along with other accused hatched a plan and murdered the woman.

Police have formed three teams to investigate the case and said a manhunt is on to nab Nawab and four other accused who remain at large. The arrests were registered under Sections 302 (punishment for murder), 201 (causing evidence of a crime to disappear or providing false information to the investigation of an offender), 120B (punishment of criminal association), 34 (acts committed by several persons in furtherance of a common intention), 143 (unlawful assembly), 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly guilty of an offense committed in prosecution of a common object) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel found Tamann's dead body stuffed inside a blue plastic drum at the Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal (SMVT) in Baiyappanahalli at around 7.30 pm on Monday. Suspicion of the alleged serial killing emerged after two similar incidents were reported earlier: one at Yeshwanthpur railway station and the other at SMVT Baiyappanahalli.

Police have confirmed that this was not a serial killing and that the three murders were unrelated. "It was not a case of serial killing. No such connection between the other murders was established during our investigation," said Dr. Soumyalatha SK, Inspector of Police (SP) (Railways),