Kasargod : A man and woman arrested killing of a hotel worker of Gadag origin recently in his house at Talapady.

The arrested are identified as Bhagyashree (32) and Allah Pasha (23), a native of Ramapura in Karnataka.

Hanumantha, a native of Gadag, who was working as a hotel labourer in Kodialbail of Mangaluru city.

On November 5th Hanumantha came home after his duty in a hotel at Mangaluru on the morning, he saw Allah Pasha with his wife Bhagyashree. This led to his death, both Bhagyashree and Allah Pasha suffocated Hanumantha to death. Later Allah Pasha shifted the mortal remains of Hanumantha on his scooter. Bhagyashree accompanied him. They threw Hanumantha’s mortal remains at Kunjathurpadavu road and put his scooter besides the body to make it look as if it is death due to scooter accident.

Locals informed the Manjeshwar police.  The police who reported to the spot initially thought that it is indeed an accident. The body was taken to Kannur medical college hospital for post mortem. In the post mortem report it was established that Hanumantha was killed due to strangulation.

It is said that Hanumantha and his wife used to quarrel over frequent visits of Allah Pasha to his house. Locals had noticed fierce argument between Hanumantha and his wife just a week prior to the murder. When police interrogated Hanumantha’s wife based on the details provided by locals, the gruesome act of murder came to light.

Hanumantha’s family used to reside at Devipura in Talapady since many years. Hanumantha was differently-abled person and used to work at a hotel in Kodialbail. Allah Pasha used to work as a JCB operator.

Manjeshwar police station inspector K P Shainu, sub-inspector Raghavan led the team that conducted the investigation. Thomas, Manu, Santhosh, Praveen, Udesh, Balakrishna, Narayana, Rajesh, Austin Tambi, Sajeesh and Laxminarayana were in the team.