Not serial killer, say Bengaluru cops after man with knife assaults 4 in 5 hours
BENGALURU: A person attacked 4 individuals with a knife in a span of 5 hours in Bengaluru’s Indranagar space on February 8 night, town police mentioned on Monday, triggering rumours on social media {that a} serial killer was on the free.
Police mentioned the 4 individuals sustained knife accidents within the assault and have been out of hazard.
Deputy commissioner of police (Bengaluru East) D Devaraj countered hypothesis concerning the assaults. “The suspect has been recognized as one Kadamba, who is thought in police data as a cell phone thief and drunkard. He dedicated the assaults in a drunken state,” Devaraj mentioned. The district police officer mentioned Kadamba was a resident of the Byappanahalli slum close to Indiranagar and was final noticed in Hoskote in rural Bengaluru.
In response to the sequence of occasions pieced collectively by the police, Kadamba first allegedly stopped 19-year-old Jaswanth, who was on scooter at about 9:30pm and acquired on the two-wheeler, using pillion with him. The suspect slashed his throat when he didn’t take a flip as directed by Kadamba. He left the bleeding teenager on the road and walked away.
Ten minutes later, the accused approached a roadside pani puri vendor, Deepak Kumar Verma, 24, He requested the seller for a plate of pani puri however Verma advised him that he had run out of it. Initially, Kadamba hurled abuses in Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi on the vendor. As soon as different clients left, he pulled out his knife and slashed Verma’s neck.
The suspect is alleged to have approached one other roadside vendor about 800 meters away. In response to the police grievance, the suspect requested the seller, Tammaiah M, 44, for a plate of pani puri. Tammaiah served him. However Kadamba acquired into an argument over the value, ₹30, and slashed the seller’s face earlier than operating away.
The fourth incident occurred at about 2:30am close to the Lono pub on 80 Ft Street. A motorbike taxi rider, Adil Aamirsab, 24, was stopped by a person who requested for a experience to Krishnarajapuram railway station. When Aamirsab declined, saying he was headed house to Magadi Street, the attacker allegedly brandished a knife and slashed his neck and fingers. The attacker then snatched the sufferer’s scooter and cell phone.
As some messages concerning the assaults claimed {that a} serial killer was on the free, town police stepped up and rebutted the declare. “A complete of 4 individuals have been stabbed by the person. We now have registered 4 FIRs. We now have recognized him. Efforts are on to trace him down,” a senior police officer mentioned.
“A rowdy sheet was opened in opposition to him in Might 2024, and preventive actions had additionally been initiated in opposition to him. He has a complete of six instances pending — one in every of housebreaking, two of assault, and three theft instances. He has a historical past of cell theft after the consumption of alcohol. He has a behavior of choosing petty quarrels with neighbours over trivial causes,” a senior police officer mentioned.
4 groups have been shaped to trace down the suspect, the officer mentioned.
