Daijiworld Media Network - Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Dec 31: In connection with the case relating to recovery of the body of Varsha Alva, student of Vivekananda Engineering College here on the railway tracks at Nehru Nagar near the college premises, her classmate, Rachana and B Com degree course student of the same college, Sukeshraj, have succeeded in getting anticipatory bail. The fifth additional district and sessions court here sanctioned anticipatory bail to both of them.

Varsha's lifeless body was found on the railway tracks near the college campus on September 28, 2014. In connection with this incident, her father, Dayakar Alva from Konchady Mangaluru, had filed a private complaint at the court here, claiming his daughter's death to be a case of murder. The court, after conducting hearing, had instructed the police to register a case against Rachana and Sukeshraj, who had been named as accused. The policemen had registered the case as per court instructions.

The accused thereafter approached the fifth additional district court here, seeking anticipatory bail. The court, which took up the petition for hearing, granted anticipatory bail as prayed.

Advocates, B Narasimha Prasad, Radhakrishna Rai, Santosh Kumar, Krishnaprasad Rai, and Chinmay Rai had placed arguments in the court on behalf of the accused in this case.