Kota Double Murder: Fourteen accused remanded to JC, 2 Sent to Police Custody
Kundpaur: The Kundapur JMC court on Friday, February 15 remanded fourteen of the accused to judicial custody until March 1 and another 2 accused to police custody till February 20 in the Kota double murder case.
The police team led by DySP Kundapur Jaishanker produced all the fifteen accused Harish Reddy, Rajshekar Reddy, ZP member Raghavendra Kanchan, Mahesh Ganiga, Ravi alias Medical Ravi, Abhi Palan, Santhosh Kundar, Rotti Nagaraj, Pranav Rao, Shanker Mogaveera, Pawan Ameen, Veerandra Acharya Rathish Karkera, Chandrashekar Reddy and Sujay before the Kundapur JMFC Court on Friday, February 15.
Judge Srikanth of Kundapur JMFC Court after the hearing remanded fourteen of the accused, Harish Reddy, Rajshekar Reddy, ZP member Raghavendra Kanchan, Mahesh Ganiga, Ravi alias Medical Ravi, Abhi Palan, Santhosh Kundar, Rotti Nagaraj, Pranav Rao, Shanker Mogaveera, Pawan Ameen, Veerandra Acharya and Rathish Karkera to Judicial custody until March 1. Two other accused Chandrashekar Reddy and Sujay were remanded to police custody until February 20.
An argument over the construction of a leach pit led to the murder of Bharath (30) and Yathish (25). They were murdered at Cikkanakere, Mannur village in Kota on January 26, and a case was registered in the Kota police station.
The prime accused in the case, Rajashekhar Reddy (44) of Manur village and G Ravi alias Medical Ravi (42), were arrested in Madikeri on February 7. Based on the information given by them, Harish Reddy (40) (the brother of Rajshekhar Reddy), Mahesh Ganiga (38) and Ravi alias Ravichandra Poojary (28) were arrested early Friday, February 8 morning. ZP member Raghavendra Kanchan was arrested on Thursday, February 7 based on the phone calls he had made to the accused before the murder on January 23 and after the murder on the night of January 26. During the inquiry, his involvement in the murder was proved. On Sunday, February 10, police arrested two constables Pavan Amin and Virendra Acharya attached to the DAR (District Armed Reserve), who had provided logistics support to the accused. On February 11 police arrested Abhishek alias Abhi Palan (23) a resident of Subramanya Nagar, Udupi Puttur, Santhosh Kundar (35) a resident of Hanehalli Barkur, Nagaraj alias Rotti Nagaraj (44) resident of Brahmavar, Pranav Rao (20) resident of Bhadravathi and Shanker Mogaveera (40) resident of Anjaru. On February 13 police arrested Chandrashekar Reddy (48) a resident of Manoor who was directly involved in the murder and Rathish M Karkera (34) a resident of Brahmagiri. On February 14 Sujaya was arrested.
Meanwhile the district BJP has suspended ZP member Raghavendra Kanchan accused in the murder from the Party.
