Mangalore: No. 19: Police Uncover Yet Another Victim of Serial Killer Mohan
By Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network—Bantwal (RD/CN)
Bantwal, Oct 23: The name of yet another woman has been added to the list of victims of serial rapist and killer Mohan on Friday October 23.
The sleuths investigating the serial murders stumbled upon the case of 26-year-old Shashikala who was reported missing at Konaje police station, located on the outskirts of Mangalore, on October 21, 2005.
Shashikala is the daughter of Narayan Madivala, resident of Kaniyoor in Balepuni village, near here.
She worked as an assistant in a children’s nursery. She left her home on October 21, 2005, to attend a nursery assistants’ meeting and had been missing since then.
Though a case was registered, no major breakthrough was made until the police obtained information from Mohan during interrogation.
The dead body of Shashikala was found in Bangalore and a case of suicide was registered at Upparapete police station. The postmortem report confirmed that it was suicide by consuming cyanide. This matches the modus operandi of the serial killer.
Mohan confessed to killing Shashikala after he was brought to the rural police station here and her parents identified their daughter from the pictures in the police records.
The investigators are also looking at three other cases of missing women in Dakshina Kannada district, though the involvement of Mohan has not been established in these cases during interrogation.
“The probe has revealed that 12 missing women are victims of serial killer Mohan,” said Puttur ASP Dr Chandra Gupta.
Shantha of Kankanady, Vinutha of Puttur, Sharada of Kedila, Shashikala of Kariyangala, Baby Nayak of Peraje, Anita of Barimar, Hema of Mittoor, Vijayalaxmi of Kasargod, Yashoda of Madantyar, Pushpa of Mulleria, Sunanda of Pervaje, now Shashikala of Kaniyoor, have been identified by their respective parents from photos in police records, informed the police.