A young man was found in the plush suburb of Bangalore inside his car.
His body was taped all around and his face was covered with four layers of plastic covers.
The story put out by the Police is that the boy, who was a Software engineer had an Online affair with a girl and as she informed him that she would be getting married, she had asked him not to trouble her.
Distressed the boy is supposed to have committed suicide, by preparing meticulously after texting the girl that she would know of his fate through the Media.
A bottle of water laced with 50 Gardenal( a quick acting sedative, normally given to Horses) tablets was found half empty by his side.
Few questions.
The sedative is very quick in acting.
In no way it is possible for a human being to consume 50 tablets of the same and yet have the time to tape himself around and wrap four plastic covers over his head.
Two to three tablets of even a tranquilizer like Restyl .5 mg. puts you to sleep in about 15 minutes.
To believe that 50 tablets of Gardenal was ineffective for nearly 15 minutes( the minimum time required to tape yourself as the boy was reported to have done) is naive or criminal or both.
Again the boy’s room-mate seems to have stated that the deceased had taken scotch tape and covers from his room.
The boy is reported to have spent a long time conversing with his relatives in person and his mother over phone just prior to his fate.
A suicide is the result of instantaneous decision and does not require this much time , as the individual spends more time especially with his relatives, the desire to commit suicide recedes.
It is imperative that the case is re-investigated thoroughly as the motive is also suspect.
A separate blog follows on Onine Relationship and the motive factor of the murder follows.
A 24-year-old software engineer was on Tuesday morning found murdered in a gruesome manner – his body was swathed in 50 metres of duct tape and strapped to the rear seat of his Volkswagen Polo at Brookefield, near Whitefield.
The youth’s head was shrouded in four plastic covers sealed with a duct tape wound 20 times around his neck. The body was swaddled in 12 layers of duct tape at eight places below the waist. His hands and legs, too, were tied using duct tape.
The victim is Sreeraj S, a resident of 6th cross, AECS Layout, Brookefield, and native of Kozhikode in Kerala. He worked with HP as a software engineer. The body was found in his car next to a lakeside park in ‘D’ block, Maruthi Layout, AECS Layout, about a kilometre from his house. A one-litre plastic bottle half-filled with water laced with sleeping tablets was found in the boot of the car.
In the morning, ragpickers spotted the car parked next to a waste dump. They thought a man lying on the back seat was asleep. A closer look revealed his head was shrouded in plastic covers. Police were informed by 8 pm. They took 15 minutes to remove the tapes from the body.
Police ruled out the murder-for-gain angle. The victim’s wallet and costly cellphone handset were intact. Investigators suspect an affair might have resulted in the killing. The victim sported a jeans and grey T-shirt . Police suspect the involvement of more than one person . The victim’s dust-free shoes indicated that he might have been killed either in his car or at a house close by.
Killers weren’t professionals
The gruesome murder of Sreeraj S on Tuesday proved only one thing: the killers were not professionals and the layers of tape pointed to their nervousness and desperation , according to forensic experts. Alerted by passersby and ragpickers about a youth’s body lying on the backseat of a car, police rushed in and force-opened the car doors. The victim showed no signs of life. Forensic experts took the fingerprints on the car and the body. Around 1pm, the police took the body out of the car and ripped off the duct tapes.
The outermost cover was of a drycleaner’s outlet from Marathahalli, the second one of a designer cloth chain, the third of a fast-food chain and the innermost of a supermarket. Underneath the layers of plastic, a yellow cloth had been stuffed into his mouth and duct-taped.
“Preliminary investigation pointed to the possibility of him being sedated using water laced with sleeping tablets. A bottle was found in the car’s boot. After Sreeraj was sedated, they put the plastic covers on his head and wrapped him up in layers of duct tape . He appears to have suffocated to death,” a forensic officer said.
Police have taken Sreeraj’s mobile phone and are examining its call records. A postmortem was conducted at Bowring hospital. His parents arrived in the city late in the night.