Couple murdered in Jayanagar
Couple murdered in Jayanagar
DH News Service, Bangalore:
79-year-old retired deputy accountant general Y S Rangan and his wife Vasantha (75) were found murdered at their Jayanagar 3rd Block residence here on Saturday.
In a chilling reminder of the vulnerability of elderly people, 79-year-old retired deputy accountant general Y S Rangan and his wife Vasantha (75) were found murdered at their Jayanagar 3rd Block residence here on Saturday. The police suspect that unidentified assailants killed the couple on Friday morning.
The victims had their throats slit with a sharp object. Rangan’s body was found in his bedroom with a pen in his hand. Vasantha’s body was in the kitchen lying in a pool of blood.
The couple’s ghastly murder has sent shock waves across the neighbourhood and had the police searching for clues since no valuables were reported missing. Suspicion then shifted to a possible property dispute. As Additional Commissioner of Police Gopal Hosur put it: “With no signs of theft, the murder might have been committed over a dispute linked to property.”
To lend credence to this theory, the police cited the couple’s plans to sell their house at Jayanagar. They had agreed to an amount running into crores with a buyer for their property.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Ramesh Chandra said the two were frequently visited by many members of the family. It is believed that the couple were dead for more than 24 hours. Their maid did not get any reply when she came for work on Friday morning. Even Rangan’s son-in-law, who lives at Indiranagar, did not get any response when he tried to contact them on the phone on Saturday. Suspecting trouble, he rushed to the house only to find the couple dead. He immediately alerted the police. Rangan’s four children— Uma, Usha, Prasad and Aravind—living separately in different parts of the City arrived later.
With no signs of forced entry into the house, the police believe the killers were known to the couple. The police deployed a dog squad which traced the scent up to 10th main. The police have begun interrogating a maid who had quit the Rangan household over a salary issue sometime ago.
Noted Kannada director and producer, Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar, a family friend of the couple, was among the hundreds who rushed to the house.
posted by The Bangalorean @ 1/11/2009 07:41:00 AM
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The ageing couple had three safer options to avoid the one under which they chose to live alone and daring to risk a petty quarrel on salary with a possibly measly paid servant-maid: One, to live with one of their siblings, but this would have depended on the set of family families which a family has cultivated in their turn and in their siblings', which is important especially for an ageing people to live in an urban setting with lots of dangerous elements in various garbs. Two, there is always an ever-present risk of death even if an ageing couple living alone do not employ servants or maids for help, choosing to do the little work for two themselves. There are postmen, couriers, milkmen, and so on, who knock the doors which must be opened, but doors open, it is not any one of them but a murderous intruder. Usually one gets slack and opens the door without fully satisfying oneself on the true identity of the one who knocks at your door. Option three, as would be guess from above, to minimise the risk by not employing a servant/maid since the amount of work involved in chores like washing of clothes, buying vegetables, and the like, can be managed without help, by suitably organizing these things - for ex., buying the requirements with the help of one of the siblings, say once in a week.
People get careless due to an ill-founded philosophy that untimely death as in an accident or a premeditate crime which happens to "others" will never happen in their own individual cases.
Police or NGO help is going to be of too limited value, especially to prevent crimes, especially committed by seasoned people. Yes, as the police says, thorough check on the identity, family members and connections of servant, can reduce risk of crime, as can an extremely discreet treatment of servant, without getting too peevish in making payments or giving ex gratia like ' say Dipavali Inam' (especially so much assured income is flowing in many such people's cases, and the servant watching their lifestyle, status of siblings, and the like, is likely to be tempted to commit crime if not by himself alone, maybe with collusion of others/ The servant's (or other intruding criminal's) reasoning being what great purpose in life these people are going to serve by merely lengthening their existence of self-aggrandizement and hoarding, and not having the wisdom to part a little in favour of a helper in these days of harsh living conditions hitting especially the poorer classes.
THIS IS MY HONEST ANALYSIS BASED ON A STUDY OF SEVERAL SUCH SAD NEWS OVER THE YEARS, AND KNOWLEDGE OF REAL, UNVARNISHED HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY.
The ageing couple had three safer options to avoid the one under which they chose to live alone and daring to risk a petty quarrel on salary with a possibly measly paid servant-maid: One, to live with one of their siblings, but this would have depended on the set of family families which a family has cultivated in their turn and in their siblings', which is important especially for an ageing people to live in an urban setting with lots of dangerous elements in various garbs. Two, there is always an ever-present risk of death even if an ageing couple living alone do not employ servants or maids for help, choosing to do the little work for two themselves. There are postmen, couriers, milkmen, and so on, who knock the doors which must be opened, but doors open, it is not any one of them but a murderous intruder. Usually one gets slack and opens the door without fully satisfying oneself on the true identity of the one who knocks at your door. Option three, as would be guess from above, to minimise the risk by not employing a servant/maid since the amount of work involved in chores like washing of clothes, buying vegetables, and the like, can be managed without help, by suitably organizing these things - for ex., buying the requirements with the help of one of the siblings, say once in a week.
People get careless due to an ill-founded philosophy that untimely death as in an accident or a premeditate crime which happens to "others" will never happen in their own individual cases.
Police or NGO help is going to be of too limited value, especially to prevent crimes, especially committed by seasoned people. Yes, as the police says, thorough check on the identity, family members and connections of servant, can reduce risk of crime, as can an extremely discreet treatment of servant, without getting too peevish in making payments or giving ex gratia like ' say Dipavali Inam' (especially so much assured income is flowing in many such people's cases, and the servant watching their lifestyle, status of siblings, and the like, is likely to be tempted to commit crime if not by himself alone, maybe with collusion of others/ The servant's (or other intruding criminal's) reasoning being what great purpose in life these people are going to serve by merely lengthening their existence of self-aggrandizement and hoarding, and not having the wisdom to part a little in favour of a helper in these days of harsh living conditions hitting especially the poorer classes.
THIS IS MY HONEST ANALYSIS BASED ON A STUDY OF SEVERAL SUCH SAD NEWS OVER THE YEARS, AND KNOWLEDGE OF REAL, UNVARNISHED HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY.
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