Crime

Trigger warning: Death, distressing details
Kriti Kumari, a 24-year-old woman from Bihar was stabbed to death a little after 11 pm on Tuesday night, at her PG accommodation in Bengaluru’s Koramangala. According to the police, she worked as a business development associate at a project-based learning platform.

The accused has been identified by the police as her roommate’s ex-boyfriend who has now been arrested from Madhya Pradesh and is being brought to Bengaluru, reports ‘The Indian Express’. He was zeroed in on by the police through the CCTV footage at the PG.  The accused, Abhishek hails from Bhopal and is currently unemployed according to the police. He used to date Kumari’s roommate and had allegedly told his girlfriend that he had started working, which she discovered was a lie and prompted her to eventually end the relationship, police said.

According to the police, the accused would visit the PG and argue with his girlfriend, and Kumari would often intervene. Police also said Kumari, who had been staying at the PG since March, had urged her roommate to stop living with the accused and move there. CCTV footage of the murder shows that other residents of the paying guest accommodation heard the commotion but were too scared to come out. They locked their doors until the accused had escaped, after which they alerted the police, according to ‘The News Minute’.