Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Aug 31: The fifth additional district court here has found the boyfriend of a girl student of Subrahmanya college in Sullia taluk guilty of murdering his lady love. Through a judgment delivered on Saturday August 29, the court said that the crime on the part of Ramesh B from Bantimaru in Kokkada village in murdering his lover, Pushpa (19), a student, has been proved.

The court said it would announce quantum of sentence on Monday August 31.

Pushpa, a second year BA degree course student of Subrahmanya College had gone missing on March 18, 2012. Searches proved futile, and her body was found lying on the bank of River Kumadhara at Valakadama in Koila village the next day.

There were injury marks on the head and hand of Pushpa, which gave rise to suspicion that she would have been murdered. The Kadaba police, who registered the case, took into custody Ramesh and questioned him. Ramesh admitted to his crime, and Pushpa's mobile phone and anklet were found from the home of the accused. The police had confiscated a motor bike owned by the accused, and he was also taken to Vodadabagalu in Volakadama where the girl student had been murdered.

The police took into possession Pushpa's clothes, which had been hidden by Ramesh on the river bank. During the hearing, Ramesh had been ordered to be released on bail.

As soon as the court pronounced Ramesh guilty of the offence, the police took him into custody again. Public prosecutors. Shivaprasad Alva and Uday Kumar had presented arguments on behalf of the prosecution.