IT engineer hires killers to murder girlfriend

Bangalore: IT engineer hires killers to murder girlfriend

Wed, Feb 20 12:40 AM

Bangalore: After two long years, the long arm of the law has finally caught up with 36-year-old Ravikiran. The software engineer working with a Hyderabad-based IT company is now in police custody along with three others for the murder of his girlfriend, Shilpa.

Police allege Ravi engaged contract killers to murder Shilpa after she began to insist that Ravi must marry her.

DCP Bangalore (South), S Ravi says, "Ravikiran gave the contract killers Rs 3.5 lakh for murdering his girlfriend. He gave the killers an advance payment of Rs 1 lakh."

Police claim Ravikiran was already married and also has a child. He had taken his girlfriend, Shilpa, to Tirupati in October 2005, promising to marry her there.

"The contract killers were in Tirupati and there they gagged her, put petrol on her and burnt her," says the DCP.

Police say Ravikiran not only eloped with Shilpa and got her killed, he even wrote a letter to her father later pretending to be Shilpa and wrote that she wanted to break all ties with her father as she did not like her father's attitude.

Shilpa's father, Munegowda, never got around to lodging a police complaint till about two months ago even though he was worried sick about his daughter's disappearance and he regrets it now.

"That was a foolish thing to do, because some people misguided me. In our system, if girl does something wrong people don't want to leak it out due to prestige and self-respect, thinking the family will get a bad name if the matter is publicised," says Munegowda.

But after his complaint, Shilpa's cellphone records finally led the police to Ravikiran, who, they claim, has confessed to the crime.

This is the news
what i am coming to say is
why should people call IT prof kills girls or watever
why cant they just say someone killed someone
this is too much
i am an CSE dept student atleast till yesterday
IT has become a sparkling star in the jobs
no one knows it is just an ordinary job like others