Miscreants rape, murder girl after she humiliates them

Madikeri: The Kodagu police arrested two persons with regard to Emmegundi Estate girl missing case.

The accused have been identified as Ranjith and Sandeep, daily wage workers hailing from West Bengal. 

As per the police sources during interrogation, Ranjith, the main accused confessed that in order to take revenge on the girl, the duo made a plan and kidnapped the girl on February 4. They then raped her and strangulated her to death with rope fearing that she would disclose the incident.

After killing her they hid the body amidst the boulders near Ganapathi temple of Emmegundi Estate so that no one gets to know about the incident.

A team led by SP Suman Pannekar, including DySP Sundar Raj, Kodagu district crime inspector M Mahesh, CPI Anoop Madappa, Siddapura PSI Dayanand, staff Yogesh Kumar, Venkatesh, Anil, Vasanth, Niranjan, MA Girish, CK Rajesh and Manjunath of SDR Cell, Lava Kumar, Pruthvisha, Mallappa and drivers Shashikumar, Poovaiah, Mohan conducted the  operation and successfully nabbed the accused, informed sources.