Nearly a month after Gurijala Arpith, 29, was on the run after allegedly strangulating his 23-year-old girlfriend to death in her flat in Jeevan Bima Nagar in the first week of June, the police tracked him down to Whitefield on Tuesday.
The police said Arpith had strangled Akanksha and smothered her with a pillow to confirm her death. He even made a futile attempt to make it look like a case of suicide by trying to hang her with a veil from the ceiling fan. However, unable to execute the plan, he had dumped the body and escaped.
The police, who obtained his ID card and phone from the scene of crime, tried to track him down to Delhi to where he had boarded a train. However, on the way, Arpith got down in Bhopal and went to Assam where he worked with a roadside vendor.
