The judicial custody of 17 accused, including Kannada actor Darshan Thugudeepa and his friend Pavithra Gowda, who are serving jail sentence in Bengaluru’s famous Renukaswami murder case, has been extended till September 12. All the accused were produced in the court of the 24th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate through video conferencing from various jails. Their judicial custody was ending today.
Karnataka police had submitted a 3991-page chargesheet in the court last week in this case. It said that blood stains were found on the clothes of Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa and on the shoes of actress Pavitra Gowda. The police has submitted a chargesheet recording about 230 evidences including eyewitness statements. Darshan and Pavitra are serving jail sentence in this murder case.
In the charge sheet presented in the court, the police cited more than 200 circumstantial evidences including forensic reports of blood stains on the clothes of 17 accused including Darshan. This also includes a photograph taken from the crime scene in which Renukaswamy can be seen pleading to be saved. Surprisingly, Pavitra herself had beaten her with a shoe.
Renukaswamy’s postmortem report revealed that she was brutally beaten up. She was given electric shocks to torture her. There were several injury marks on her body. One ear was missing and the testicles were torn. All these evidences testify that Renuka was brutally beaten up, which led to her death. After this, the accused disposed of her body.
17 accused including Darshan Thoogudeepa and his girlfriend actress Pavitra Gowda were arrested in the murder case of Renuka Swamy. Renuka, a 33-year-old auto driver, was found dead near a flyover in Bengaluru on June 9. Renuka Swamy, who was a fan of Darshan, was kidnapped and murdered by a gang on the instructions of the actor for harassing Pavitra.
Let us tell you that this murder was committed in Pattanagere village of Bengaluru. Renuka Swami was beaten to death as soon as she left the scene of the incident for darshan. After this, one of the accused Pawan informed the actor about this via WhatsApp. Then a plan was made to dispose of the body. All the accused reached Kamakshipalya with the body. There the body was thrown near a drain.
After this, they surrendered at the police station, where they said that there was a dispute of Rs 30 lakh. When the police did not believe the accused, they were interrogated strictly. After this, the accused revealed the truth. They told that a contract of Rs 30 lakh was given to kill Renuka Swami. An advance amount of Rs 5 lakh was also paid in this.
He also revealed the name of the mastermind of this murder, Darshan. Police investigation revealed that actor Darshan had given a contract to kill Renuka Swami a few days ago. After this, his people first started tracking Renuka. They collected every small and big information about Renuka, who was a resident of Chitradurga. After this, on June 8, she was kidnapped by deceit and killed.
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