Cyanide Mohan convicted of killing music teacher – 16th such conviction

coastaldigest.com web desk

September 22, 2019

Mangaluru, Sept 22: School teacher turned serial killer Cyanide Mohan was on Saturday convicted of murdering a woman from Manjeshwara by the Sixth Additional District and Sessions Court in Mangaluru. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on September 25.

This is the 16th such case where 56-year-old Mohan has been convicted – He would lure women with the promise of marriage, rape them, and then ask them to take a cyanide-laced birth control pill.

In this case, the victim, a 33-year-old music teacher was murdered in Bengaluru in 2007.

Cyanide Mohan was found guilty under sections 302 (convicted of murder), 328 (causing hurt by poison), 392 (robbery), 394 (causing hurt in robbery), 417 (punishment for cheating) and 201 (causing disapperence of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code, based on 38 witnesses and 49 documents.

According to police, Mohan had befriended the woman who was based out of Mangaluru in 2007 after introducing himself as a forest department official. He had promised to give her a recording assignment with a recording company in Bengaluru.

It was when they travelled to Bengaluru and stayed in a city hotel in Cottonpet Road. According to police, Mohan convinced her to sleep with him and on the following day Mohan asked her to leave her jewellery behind on the pretext of going for a puja.

It was then at a KSRTC bus stand, Mohan gave her a cyanide-laced contraceptive pill and left her to die at the bus stand in Upparpet. Police had found the victim’s body at around 9 am and registered an unnatural death case. As planned, Mohan returned to the hotel and made off with her jewellery.

‘Cyanide’ Mohan was first arrested in 2010 after which police uncovered as many 32 murders allegedly committed by him following the same modus operandi. The victims were all women, who had been poisoned with cyanide and found in the restrooms of bus stations.

Mohan would lure them with the promise of marriage, rape them, take them to the nearest bus stand where he would ask them to take a birth control pill. The pill was laced with cyanide. The women went to the restrooms to take the pill as he had told them it would make them sick.

Although the bodies of these women were being found in various towns across the south and coastal Karnataka, the police had never connected the killings. They were all declared suicides, even after the autopsy of two victims showed traces of cyanide in them.

Comments

Add new comment

Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.

Lokayukta team arrives at disputed plot; CM likely to get ED summons

News Network

October 1,2024

Mysuru, Oct 1: The Karnataka Lokayukta team on Tuesday arrived at the disputed plot in Mysuru and began investigation into the MUDA case against CM Siddaramaiah and his wife, news agency ANI reported. Snehamayi Krishna, the complainant in the case was also present with the team.

Sources stated that ED sleuths might issue a notice to CM Siddaramaiah at any time and issue summons to him for questioning. The sleuths are also keenly watching the movements of CM Siddaramaiah’s close associates and relatives, including a cabinet minister in connection with the MUDA scam.

Sources further said that there is a possibility of the ED conducting raids across the state on offices and residences of close associates of CM Siddaramaiah. The ED has also gathered information on bank accounts and financial transactions of CM Siddaramaiah and his associates.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Monday registered an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), equivalent to an FIR by the police, against CM Siddaramaiah over the alleged irregularities in the allotment of 14 sites to his wife Parvathi B.M. by the Mysore Urban Development Authority. The ED registered the case taking cognisance of the FIR registered against the Chief Minister by the Lokayukta police on September 27.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka Lokayukta probing the MUDA case has also expedited the probe. The sleuths led by Mysuru Lokayukta SP T.J. Udesh have visited the controversial land on the outskirts of Mysuru city. The petitioner, Snehamayi Krishna, also accompanied the team.

The move of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s wife to return 14 sites allotted by the MUDA to her has triggered a debate. BJP MLA from Mysuru T.S. Srivatsa stated on Tuesday that the move of CM’s wife is not acceptable. "The two commissioners who colluded in the MUDA scam are roaming freely even today," he said.

"CM Siddaramaiah first claimed that there was no scam at all. Later, he formed a commission and now there is an FIR against him. After committing the mistake, you offer to return the sale deed. The time is up. He will have to tender his resignation and I am sure he won’t be in the position until Dasara festivities," MLA T.S. Srivatsa stated.

T.J. Abraham, one of the petitioners in the MUDA case said, “I had demanded the MUDA commissioner to take back the allotted sites. He had written back saying the process would be initiated. They were waiting for the investigation report."

"CM Siddaramaiah has not approached the division bench or the Supreme Court to challenge the order against him because there is nothing to be challenged. Returning sites is not a big sacrifice. The Chief Minister has lost it," Abraham stated.

Comments