Mangalore, Dec 19: The fourth additional district and sessions court here on Wednesday December 18 held Cyanide Mohan Kumar guilty in yet another murder case.
He was held guilty of murdering Sunanda of Peruvaje in Sullia taluk, the only victim whose body was identified by the family.
On Tuesday December 17, Mohan was convicted in two cases relating murders of Anitha of Barimar, Bantwal and Leelavathi of Vamadapadav. The verdict in the third case pertaining to Sunanda was reserved for Wednesday after the judge directed the removal of section 364 and inclusion of sections 366 and 394 in the chargesheet.
Judge B K Naik pronounced Mohan guilty under sections 366,376, 328, 392, 394, 417, 302 and 201 of the IPC.
Sunanda (32), a resident of Peruvajae, Sullia went missing on February 11, 2008, and the same night, her body was found in Mysore KSRTC bus stand. Investigation revealed that Mohan had first met Sunanda at a Congress rally at Nehru Maidan, where she was with her sister and cousin. Mohan introduced himself as ‘Shashidhar’ and befriended her. Shashidhar alias Mohan Kumar had introduced himself as the Supevisor in the Central Government Department and had convinced Sunanda of marrying her.
“On February 11, 2008, Sunanda left home saying she would go to Malla temple in Kerala along with Shashidhar. She had said that she would go to temple to offer special prayer to the God to eliminate ‘dosha’ which would block her marriage with Shashidhar.
Though she was supposed to return home in the evening, she called us at 6 pm and informed that she would come the next morning as they were yet to offer the ‘pooja’.
Mohan took Sunanda to a lodge in Mysore and repeated his act as in cases of other 20 girls. He gave her cyanide at the KSRTC bus stand the same evening, which killed her.
Rathnavathi, mother of Sunanda who too was the main witness, said that Sunanda had told her of drawing Rs 25,000 cheque at Netravathi Bank in Bellare before leaving to Malla. Rathnavathi also said that she had identified the jeweleries belonging to her daughter at Ashirvad Finance in Thokkottu.
The quantum of punishment in the three cases will be announced on December 19 Thursday.
