A BPO employee was killed and his newly wed wife assaulted by criminals before they decamped with valuables from the couple & aposs house today, police here said. A gang of four, speaking in Kannada struck at the house of Umesh Krishnan, in the Ramaswamy Palya area under the Banaswadi police limits in the wee hours, they said.

Krishnan, employed with Infosys BPO had opened the door hearing the calling bell and the criminals had forced their way into the house. To silence Krishnan, they stuck a plaster on his mouth, which accidentally also covered his nose leading to his death due to suffocation, police said. The miscreants then assaulted Krishnan&aposs newly wed wife Honey Mary, snatched away her”mangal sutra”and other valuables, the cost of which was being assessed, they added.

The couple had moved into their rented house barely 30 days back after getting married four months ago. Police have launched a hunt for the culprits. In a similar incident yesterday, which occurred in another locality under the same police limits, a four-member gang shot dead Javed Farvez, who owns a travel agency, and his wife Azia Banu. Source

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