Vijayapura (Karnataka): Two persons were arrested on Saturday in a case pertaining to the suspected honor killing of a college student in Karnataka's Vijayapura district, officials from the Tikota Police Station in the district informed on Saturday. The victim has been identified as Mallikarjuna Bheemanna Jamakhandi, a resident of Ghosanagi village in the taluk.
The decomposed body of Mallikarjun was recovered from a gunny bag from the banks of the Krishna river near Hadarihala village of the neighboring Bagalkot district on October 10. The issue came to light on September 23 earlier this year, when neither the youth nor a girl he appeared to like, returned home from college.
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A subsequent police complaint was filed at the Tikota Police Station by the parents of Mallikarjun, who identified the body with the t-shirt worn by the deceased.
Explaining the situation, police officials stated that the girl had died by suicide by poisoning herself, after which Mallikarjun, too, was killed using the same substance by the accused, who have been identified as the girl's father, Gurappa and her uncle, Ajeet.
"The body of the minor girl has not been found yet. However, during the investigation the accused revealed that the girl had committed suicide by consuming poison, following which they killed the young man with the same poison, put both bodies in separate gunny bags, and threw them into the Krishna river," Superintendent of Police Anand Kumar said.
A second-year student, Mallikarjun used to travel by bus to college, and during his time in the institution, he met the girl - a student of class 12, according to an IANS report. The disappearance took place following warnings from the girl's family, who had directed the youth to cut off connections with her.
