It was almost the perfect crime: a murder planned and executed by a carpenter, who allegedly strangled a 27-year-old labourer to death in an isolated place on the outskirts of the city and set fire to the body on the night of October 30 last year.
The police recovered the highly decomposed body from the outskirts of Bagepalli two days later and recovered the label of a tailor. They registered a case of murder and Superintendent of Police Mithun Kumar G.K. formed a special team to trace the identity of the deceased.
The police reached ‘SS Mens Wear’ in D.J. Halli and with the help of the tailor’s book, identified the deceased as Syed Mustafa, a construction labourer from D.J. Halli who was missing.
