Police uncover gruesome murder linked to property dispute

Bengaluru: Seven months after the mysterious disappearance of a 44-year-old ayurveda doctor, Anand, his body has been discovered to be the victim of a brutal murder carried out by a gang of painters and drivers over a property dispute. The police have arrested Mohammed Ghouse, 31, Nadeem Pasha, 32, and Syed Noor Pasha, 39, for their involvement in the killing.

According to the complaint filed by Anand’s uncle, Raghupatiraj, 72, from Coimbatore, the two last spoke on June 1, after which Anand’s phone went switched off. When Raghupatiraj visited Bengaluru, he found Anand’s house in Jayanagar razed to the ground. An investigation led police to discover that Anand had been in touch with Ghouse before his disappearance.

Ghouse informed police that Anand had sold his house to a man named Prasad and had told him he was moving to Chennai. Police efforts to trace Anand in Chennai were futile. However, after the court ordered police action through a habeas corpus petition, they tracked Anand’s phone signals to Chhattisgarh in October. This led police to Syed Noor Pasha, who confessed to the crime.

Syed revealed that Ghouse, along with Nadeem, had strangled Anand in a car near Mysuru and dumped his body in the backwaters of the Lakshmana Tirtha river in Yelawala, Mysuru. Ghouse had orchestrated the sale of Anand’s house to Prasad without his consent, using two real estate brokers and an advocate to siphon off Rs 45 lakh. When Anand demanded his share of the money, Ghouse, fearing exposure, planned his murder.

The investigation, now transformed into a murder case, will be transferred to Mysuru police. Photos of the body recovered from the river confirmed it was Anand’s.

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