Police have recovered two more bodies from a forest area near Chamundi Hills in Mysuru district in connection with the alleged killings of members of a Bengaluru cab driver’s wife’s family, taking the number of recovered bodies to five.
The latest victims were identified by police as Shivakumar and Divya. Their bodies were found on Sunday in the Chamundi Hills forest area, investigators said. The recovery followed the discovery on Saturday of the bodies of the accused cab driver’s wife and mother-in-law in the Yercaud forest area of Tamil Nadu’s Salem district.
Police had recovered the body of a seven-year-old boy, identified as Puneeth, near Nandi Hills on Friday. Investigators allege that the accused, identified as Indusekar alias Sekar, killed seven members of his wife’s family following domestic disputes. The remaining two bodies have not yet been recovered.
According to the police, the alleged killings took place over a period of 15 to 20 days. Investigators believe the accused committed the murders at his home within the limits of the Rajajinagar police station in Bengaluru and later disposed of the bodies at different locations in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
The investigation began after a missing-person complaint was registered at the Srirampura police station on November 3. The inquiry subsequently led police to suspect multiple murders, after which the case was converted into a murder case and registered at the Rajajinagar police station.
During interrogation, the accused allegedly disclosed the locations where the bodies had been disposed of. Police teams then began searches in several areas, including locations outside Karnataka. The recovery of bodies in Mysuru, near Nandi Hills and in Tamil Nadu has made inter-state coordination a central part of the investigation.
Investigators are also examining the circumstances in which the victims may have been killed. Police suspect that the accused may have administered sedatives before the alleged murders. They are probing whether he increased the television volume during the assaults to mask sounds and prevent neighbours from becoming suspicious. These aspects remain part of the ongoing investigation.
The case also illustrates how a missing-person complaint can become the starting point for a wider criminal inquiry when investigators identify links between separate disappearances and locations. In this instance, the police inquiry moved from the initial complaint in Bengaluru to searches across multiple districts and a neighbouring state.
Police have not yet recovered the remaining two bodies, and the investigation is continuing. Further searches are expected at the locations allegedly identified during interrogation, while investigators examine the sequence of events and the evidence connected with each death.
