A megacity civil and sessions court in Bengaluru has condemned a 30 year old man and doomed him to life in prison with no possibility of parole for stabbing a 22-year-old engineering pupil to death in 2017. Judge K M Rajashekhar of the 28th megacity civil and sessions court in his order on Monday said, “Invoking the vittles Section 235-2 of CrPC, the indicted is on conviction of offence punishable U.S 302 IPC, he’s doomed to suffer a rigorous period of imprisonment for life till his last breath and to pay a forfeiture of Rs.2,00,000 order to pay the fine, he shall suffer RI for 2 times. Invoking the provision of Section 357 of CrPC, the Accused is doomed to pay compensation of Rs200000 to Kondamma the mama of the departed”.
Johnson, a bartender from Vibhutipura, had multiple felonious cases pending against him and was known to target youthful couples around the Vibhutipura lake, stealing them at knifepoint. On June 10, 2017, Johnson tried to catch a chain from a woman and fled the scene on his motorcycle after she screamed. The victim, Sai Charan, a BE pupil at an original council, heard the woman scream and began chasing Johnson on his motorcycle for nearly one kilometre on an isolated road, before defying him
. In an effort to escape, Johnson picked Sai Charan doubly with a cutter he was carrying and fled the scene, leaving the victim in a pool of blood. Musketeers of the victim set him unconscious and took him to the sanitarium, where he later failed. M Narayana, the DCP, had formed a special platoon led by the police inspector Sadiq Pasha to crack the case faster. During the disquisition, police were able to identify Johnson through CCTV footage on Kaggadasapura main road.