IT professional murdered in Bangalore

Raising fresh concerns over the safety of IT professionals in Bangalore, the police recovered the dead body of a 32-year-old software engineer from an isolated stretch of road in the City’s eastern suburbs.

The software engineer Adhit Lahiri had apparently been waylaid and smothered to death by unidentified miscreants while he was returning home late in the night after the day’s work.

Adhit had been robbed of his car, ring, watch, cash and a mobile phone before he was killed. The police found his body dumped near Mahadevapura tank on Friday. His hands and legs had been bound.

Though Lahiri returned home around 10.30 pm every night, he did not return home even by midnight, forcing his anxious wife Aparna Lahiri to rush to the nearby Airport police station and lodge a complaint about her missing husband.

She told the police that her husband was wearing a yellow checked shirt and sported a sacred red band on his wrist. Immediately, a message was on the police wireless system across the City with the description of the missing man.

After finding the body on Friday, the police suspect that the miscreants may have waylaid Adhit while he was travelling by car before smothering him to death. After preliminary examination of the dead body, the police shifted the body to Bowring Hospital for a post-mortem.

Senior police officials including Additional Commissioner of Bangalore City Police Bipin Gopalakrishna and Joint Commissioner of Bangalore City Police Gopal Hosur visited the spot from where the Adhit’s dead body was recovered.