Mangaluru, February 26: The Sixth Additional District and Sessions Court convicted a former teacher from Karnataka, Mohan Kumar, in a murder case of a 28-year-old woman of Maladi in Bantwal Taluk. This is the fifth case of conviction out of the 20 cases of murder registered against him.

Puttur additional superintendent of police Chandragupta had led his team and arrested the accused on September 21, 2010. The team had also filed a charge- sheet at the court. On Friday, 23 February 2018, the Sixth Additional District Sessions Court in Mangaluru convicted ‘Cyanide’ Mohan on the charges of murder, robbery and rape of a 28-year-old woman. He was given life imprisonment for the heinous act.

Mohan Kumar, was termed as ‘Cyanide’ Kumar after cases of him sweet talking girls into a relationship with him and then killing them giving cyanide pills on the pretext of contraceptive came to the public light. Mohan would also do away with the jewellery of these victims. ‘Cyanide’ Mohan was also handed a death sentence by Mangaluru court in the year 2013.

In this case, according to the charge-sheet filed, Mohan got in touch with the victim in September 2009, at the bus stop in Madanthyar and introduced himself as Shashidhar Poojary. He got the woman’s mobile number and after courting her briefly, asked her to marry him. On September 24, he took the victim to a lodge and had sex with her. The next day, he told the victim that she should take a pill for avoiding getting pregnant and asked her to accompany him in a puja the next day. Manoj had already told the victim to get as much jewellery she had to wear it for the puja but told her to leave it in the lodge room as it was not required. He asked her to take the pill in the washroom and the victim died immediately after taking the pill. Mohan then ran away with all the jewellery and mobile phone. After reaching Mangaluru, Mohan sold the valuables at a jewellery shop located on KS Rao Road.

Mohan was convicted under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (Murder), 366 (Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her into marriage), 376 (Rape), 417 (Cheating), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison), 392 (robbery) and 201 (destruction of evidence).

Judith O M Crasta, special public prosecutor, said that a total of 39 witnesses, 43 documents and 48 objects were examined and produced in the court. The Sixth Additional District and Sessions Judge D T Puttarangaswamy heard and upheld the arguments of Crasta’s arguments and convicted Mohan Kumar.

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