The 3,991-page chargesheet (with seven volumes and 10 recordsdata) was submitted to the twenty fourth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court docket.
The Bengaluru Police on Wednesday filed a chargesheet towards 17 accused in the Renukaswamy murder case, together with Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa. A watertight chargesheet was ready after investigating the case from all points, Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda instructed reporters right here.
The chargesheet includes 231 witness statements and technical and digital proof, the police mentioned, including it was a large investigation. The 3,991-page chargesheet (with seven volumes and 10 recordsdata) was submitted to the twenty fourth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court docket.
“We have arrested 17 people in this case who are in judicial custody. There are three direct eye witnesses; 27 witnesses have given their statements before the court and other witnesses have recorded their statements before the police,” Dayananda mentioned.
“We have sent several materials pertaining to the investigation to FSL (Forensic Science Laboratory) here and CFSL (Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Hyderabad). We have received their reports but some reports from CFSL are yet to come,” he mentioned.
As many as 56 cops are among the many witnesses in the case, Dayananda added. In a press release, the police mentioned that the chargesheet towards the 17 accused has been filed on the premise of the accounts of eye-witnesses, circumstantial, technical, scientific and different proof collected by the investigators.
The proof collected has been submitted to the court docket beneath part 173 (8) of CrPC (Code of Criminal Procedure), which provides unrestrained proper to the investigating company for additional probe, it mentioned. According to police sources, evaluation of name element data and tower location of the cellphones of the accused establishes their presence on the scene of crime and apart from the witnesses, they’ve sufficient proof to show the presence of the accused with Renukaswamy on the day of incident.
The sufferer’s bloodstains have been discovered on the garments of some accused, together with that of Pavithra Gowda, and this truth has been confirmed with the assistance of reviews obtained from the FSL, which is a vital proof and has been talked about in the chargesheet.
The chargesheet additionally mentions particulars about pictures of the sufferer’s physique which was recovered from the cell phone of one of many accused. These footage have been allegedly taken on the scene of crime (parking shed) after Renukaswamy’s demise and despatched to different prime accused in the case, police sources mentioned.
Dress, footwear and cash utilized by Darshan to cowl up the case has additionally been recovered by the police, particulars of which have been talked about in the chargesheet, they mentioned.
The sufferer was utilizing a false instagram ID to ship lewd messages and pictures to Gowda, and she or he instructed this to her assistant, Pavan, who knowledgeable Darshan about it. Darshan then requested Raghavendra, president of his followers’ affiliation in Chitradurga to get Renukaswamy to Bengaluru, they added.
Darshan alongside along with his buddy Pavithra Gowda and 15 others, who’re accused in the case, are presently beneath judicial custody in completely different prisons in the state. According to police sources, 33-year-old Renukaswamy, a fan of the actor, had despatched obscene messages to Gowda, which enraged Darshan, allegedly resulting in his murder. His physique was discovered close to a stormwater drain subsequent to an condominium in Sumanahalli right here on June 9.
Raghavendra, one of many accused who’s a part of Darshan’s fan membership in Chitradurga, had introduced Renukaswamy to a shed in R R Nagar right here, on the pretext that the actor wished to fulfill him. It was in this shed that he was allegedly tortured and murdered.
According to the autopsy report, Renukaswamy, a local of Chitradurga, died resulting from shock and haemorrhage because of a number of blunt accidents. Police sources mentioned Pavithra, who’s accused primary, was the “major cause” for Renukaswamy’s murder, claiming that it has been proved from the probe that she instigated different accused, conspired with them, and took half in the crime.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA workers and is revealed from PTI)
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