Real estate agent killed after Facebook friendship leads to love-triangle

August 1, 2016

Bengaluru, Aug 1: The multiple love affair of a Mysuru based girl has claimed the life of a young real estate agent in Bengaluru.

The victim is Yogesh (26), who was reported missing by his sister on July 21. He was allegedly killed over his involvement in a love triangle with a girl he befriended on Facebook.

Prathap, son of Shivakumar, president of the Karnataka State Gaurakshana Samithi, is supected to have killed Yogesh and buried his body at his farmhouse in Athingere village, Ramanagara. Police have ruled out the girl's involvement in the murder.

Yogesh had been living with his sister in Jayanagar for two years and was last seen on July 19. His sister filed a missing complaint with police when Yogesh did not return home or answer his phone for two days.

A look at Yogesh's call records revealed he had been in frequent touch with a girl in Mysuru. Police then learned she had also been regularly speaking to Prathap. The two were then picked up and Prathap spilled the beans.

Police said Prathap and Yogesh met the girl on Facebook. Prathap did not like her talking to other men and even warned Yogesh against doing so several times. Yogesh was waylaid by Prathap and four friends near Jayanagar 6th Block.

They bundled Yogesh into a car and took him to the farmhouse in Magadi taluk where he was tortured. He was hit on the head with a heavy object and buried within the farmhouse premises. Prathap escaped from police's clutches but was arrested on July 28.

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RIP

Gau rakshak can kill a human but not gau...punish him like the way he punished Mr. Yogesh....ill treat and torture and put him behind gallows....

Gaurakshak? No rakshak for Human? May be member of chaddi Community.

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The team — shrimp expert Dr S Prakash, PhD scholar K Kunjulakshmi, and Mangaluru-based researcher Maclean Antony Santos — combined field surveys, ecological assessments and DNA analysis to identify the elusive species. Their findings, published in Zootaxa, resolve decades of taxonomic confusion stemming from a 1951 report that misidentified the species as Atyopsis moluccensis without strong evidence.

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