Kathmandu. A paralyzed man was murdered by a gang in Karnataka’s Hospet to get money for life insurance, police said on Sunday. To make the murder look like an accident, the gang members put the body in a two-wheeler and then hit it with a car. <\/p>\n
The gang already knew that the paralyzed young man was married and had a life insurance policy of more than Rs 5 crore. After the young man’s death, they tried to extort insurance money by posing as his wife to one of the gang members. <\/p>\n
Man murdered for the greed of insurance money<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n }<\/p>\n According to the police, a six-member gang came to know that 34-year-old Gangadhar, a resident of Kolpet in the city, had a life insurance policy of Rs 5.20 crore and started looking for a way to grab the money. They killed Gangadhar and then took his body to the outskirts of the city. They put the man’s body in a two-wheeler and then hit the car to convince the insurance company that his death was an accident. <\/p>\n A female gang member posed as Gangadhar’s wife and sued the insurance company to get the insurance money. <\/p>\n Arrested for trying to present murder as an accident<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Vijayanagar Superintendent of Police S. “On September 28 at 5:30 am, we received information about the hit-and-run case. We were told that a body had been found on Sandur Road. We went to the spot and retrieved the body after following all the procedures. \u2019<\/p>\n After confirming the identity of the youth, his wife, Shardamma, a resident of Kaulpet in Hospet, was called to the police station. Where she filed a complaint. <\/p>\n Wife’s statement reveals murder mystery<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Superintendent of Police (SP) Janhavi said, “The wife of the deceased said that she and Gangadhar had been married for 6 years and Gangadhar had suffered a stroke three years ago. After that, the left side of Gangadhar’s body stopped functioning. \u2019<\/p>\n According to Janhavi, Gangadhar did not even have a two-wheeler. “It raised doubts about the hit-and-run issue,” he said. <\/p>\n All 6 members of the gang were arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n According to SP Janhavi, the case was resolved within 24 hours of Gangadhar’s wife’s complaint. “All 6 members of the gang have been arrested,” he said. \u2019<\/p>\n The car and two-wheeler used in the murder have also been confiscated, Janhvi said. “Further investigation into the incident is underway,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathmandu. A paralyzed man was murdered by a gang in Karnataka’s Hospet to get money for life insurance, police said on Sunday. To make the murder look like an accident, the gang members put the body in a two-wheeler and then hit it with a car. The gang already knew that the paralyzed young man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":227201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/227201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}