Police have arrested a person in connection with the murder an IBM employee, which took place earlier this week.
The body of Kusum Singla, 31, was found in her flat in south-east Bengaluru on Tuesday by her flatmate after she returned from work. She had been strangled with the cord of a laptop.
Kusum Singla earlier a resident of Gurgaon was last year transferred by her firm to Bengaluru city. It is being suspected that she had an argument for unknown reasons with an unidentified person who visited her apartment on Monday midnight. Kusum had mentioned that the unidentified person was her guest in the building’s visitor’s register.
She was a divorcee and was reportedly looking forward for a second marriage, as she had her profile on matrimony site. Kusum was staying with a flatmate Nidhi, at the fourth floor of Mahaveer Kings apartment in Kadugodi.
On Tuesday evening around 7.30 pm, when Nidhi returned from office, she found Kusum, lying in a pool of blood, after which she immediately informed police.
According to the police, the prime suspect Sukhbir Singh, a former Yahoo employee, was held from Haryana on Thursday. Singh had met Singla over social media and the two were in a relationship. Police say Singh, who was currently unemployed was asking Singla for money.
Senior Bangalore Police officer P Harisekaran said Singh has been brought back to the city from Haryana and is being interrogated. “Within 24 hours we cracked the case and arrested the accused. We identified the suspect from the scene of crime,” Harisekaran said.
Sukhbir Singh is 25-year-old. He is also a techie, but has been out of a job for the last couple of years. The police added that he attacked her first with a sharp object and there were signs of a struggle in the house. Later, he grabbed the laptop cord and strangulated her.
