Horrifying death cases that shook Bengaluru this year

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: December 9 2023- Shocking visuals from a CCTV camera revealed a three-year-old girl being run over by a careless car driver in Kasavanahalli.

The parents of the girl were earlier clueless of the cause of her death. The car driver was booked after the footage was verified by the police.

November 19, 2023- A 23-year-old woman and her nine-month-old baby girl were charred to death after the woman stepped on a live electric wire lying on the footpath near Hope Farm junction.

Several Bescom engineers were held responsible and later suspended for negligence.

November 4, 2023- A senior geologist, Pratima KS, was found brutally murdered by her former driver at her residence in Subramanyapura.

The following day, police tracked the absconding driver, Kiran, and arrested him.

July 31, 2023- A family including a couple and two girl children, one was twoyears and the other barely eight months, were found dead at their flat in Kadugodi.

A debt-ridden techie had strangled his daughters and wife before hanging himself to death. The decomposed bodies were found after two days, on August 2.

July 17, 2023- A BTech student, Aditya Prabhu, died after jumping from an eighth-floor building at the PES University campus.

Management alleged that he was caught using a mobile-phone during an examination. Following the incident several protests were staged accusing the management of harassment and negligence.

June 5, 2023- A 23-year-old Hyderabad-based girl, Akanksha,was found murdered at her apartment in Jeevan Bheema Nagar.

Launching a probe, the police scanned CCTV cameras and tracked her absconding boyfriend, Arpit, arresting him in the case.

June 1 2023- Bannerghatta police arrested three men from Bihar for brutally killing their 53-year-old landlord, Geethamma.

The police found the dismembered torso of the deceased lying near a drain in Janata Colony, but her limbs were excavated from a place in Suvarnamukhi Hill after a few days.

May 21, 2023- An employee of Infosys, 23-year-old Bhanurekha died after she got trapped in a rented cab that entered the flooded KR Circle underpass during heavy rains.

As it was a Sunday, she was on a city tour with her family when the incident took place.

January 10, 2023- A 30-yearold woman, Tejaswini, and her toddler son, Vihan were killed after a 40-feet high under construction pillar of Namma Metro collapsed on them.

Tejaswini and her husband were riding along with their twin children when the incident took place near Nagawara.

January 2, 2023- An armed youth allegedly barged into the Presidency College premises and brutally hacked a 19-year-old student, Layasmitha, to death.

The police arrested Pawan Kalyan, 23, who was accused of killing the girl for rejecting his advances.