Mangaluru: The 6th Additional District and Sessions Court Judge on February 23 convicted K Mohan Kumar alias Cyanide Mohan for murdering a 28-year old woman from Megina Maladi from Bantwal Taluk.
This is the fifth case in which the court pronounced Cyanide Mohan as guilty of murder,rape, robbery, kidnapping, distorting evidence and administering poison to the woman from Bantwal. In previous four cases, district sessions court had pronounced death sentence to the coldblooded murderer.
According to Public Prosecutor Judith O M Crasta, 6th District Additional and Sessions Court Judge D T Puttarangaswamy convicted Cyanide Mohan under IPC sections 302 (murder), 376 (rape), 366(kidnapping ),392 (robbery), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison) and 201(causing disappearance of evidence of offence).
The Court has examined 39 witness in the case, while 43 documents and 48 material evidence were presented before the court.
Cyanide Mohan lured a woman from the Bantwal Taluk by promising to marry her, took her to Hassan from BC Road on September 24, 2009. He then raped her in a lodge and on the next day (September 25, 2009) he handed her a poison pill (cyanide), stating that it was meant to avoid a pregnancy. He directed the woman to consume the same in a public toilet. The victim consumed the pill in the Hassan Bus stand toilet and collapsed. Cyanide Mohan fled with her gold ornaments, cash and mobile phone.
After the death of victim, Cyanide Mohan was using her mobile phone.The network location gathered by the police department and the CID, was one of the evidences. The court convicted Cyanide Mohan based on circumstance evidences.
The court will announce the quantum of punishment on Saturday, February 24.
Upholding the judgement of the Additional District and Sessions Court, the High Court had awarded the death sentence in one murder case and five years of rigorous imprisonment and life imprisonment till death in two other cases.
Cynaide Mohan
It may be recalled that Mohan Kumar, alias Cyanide Mohan was a school teacher by profession who is facing charges of rape and murder of more than 20 gullible women in Dakshina Kannada and Kasargod districts.
His Modus operandi was to target women who have crossed marriageable age. He used to approach his targets, befriend them, promise them marriage, job and take them to distant places stating that he had made arrangements for their wedding or interviews.
A night before the ‘wedding’ or ‘ineterviews’, Mohan Kumar used to establish physical relationship with the victim in a lodge and administer a cyanide pill the next morning, in a public place, on the pretext of avoiding unwanted pregnancy.
The women who had consumed the pill believing him were found dead in public toilets of various places across the state. Mohan Kumar would vanish the spot leaving behind no clues, with the ornaments of the ‘bride to-be’ and return home to his family, which included a naive wife who was unaware of her husband’s doings and two little children. He was nabbed in 2010 when one of his victims escaped the fatal plot.
