A heart-wrenching incident has come to light in Bengaluru. A mother and her live-in partner brutally murdered a 6-year-old girl after she spilled ice cream in the car. The police have arrested both of them.
Bengaluru: A mother and her live-in partner beat and suffocated a 6-year-old girl to death over a trivial matter like spilling ice cream in the car. This heart-wrenching incident took place on March 25 in Sigehalli area of ​​Bengaluru. Only when the police arrested the accused after months of investigation, the secret of this dreadful murder came to light. Among those arrested were the girl’s mother Priyanka P. and her live-in partner Mohan J. Mahaningappa, a real estate businessman.
According to the police, these people were going somewhere by car on the night of March 24. Meanwhile, the girl accidentally dropped ice cream in the car. Mohan became enraged at this and started beating the girl mercilessly. He hit the girl hard in the stomach with her elbow. When the girl started screaming in pain, Mohan pressed her mouth and nose and stopped her breathing. The girl died due to beating and suffocation. After this, both of them kept roaming in the city with the dead body of the girl for about 12 hours.
To hide the secret of the girl’s death, both of them fabricated a big story. They tried to make it a case of sudden illness. But the revelations made in the postmortem report and forensic investigation put the police in doubt.
Priyanka was living separately from her husband Praveen Basappa due to mutual differences. She lived with her college friend Mohan in a luxurious villa in Bengaluru. Mohan is also married and father of two children. Priyanka’s elder daughter lived with her father. The girl’s father Praveen has said in his complaint that Priyanka and Mohan considered this 6-year-old girl as an obstacle in their relationship. They were planning to have a new baby through IVF. Praveen alleges that the girl was tortured earlier also.
Suspecting the girl’s death, father Praveen sent the postmortem report to one of his relatives in the UK, who is a pediatrician. After seeing the report, the doctor made it clear that the girl had been brutally beaten and suffocated to death. After this, on June 4, Praveen lodged a complaint of murder with the police. The police first detained Mohan. Priyanka, who was absconding, was recently arrested from Hassan district. Police say that interrogation of both is ongoing.