Mumbai: Close to a week after the murder
of a 48-year-old BARC scientist, city police who had claimed
to have clues in case are still groping in the dark for a
breakthrough.
"Investigations are on. We are still to get a
breakthrough (in the murder case)," said KV Kale,
investigating officer at Gamdevi police station.
Mahadevan Padmanabhan Iyer, a mechanical engineer working
in the BARC's Reactor Group, was found murdered in his first
floor apartment in the BARC quarters near Breach Candy
Hospital in south Mumbai on the night of February 22.
Police suspect the scientist could be a gay and could
have been a victim of a strained affair.
The next day of the murder, Joint Police Commissioner
Himanshu Roy had claimed they had clues and would crack the
case soon. As part of the probe, police inspector Kale had
recently gone out of Mumbai but in vain.
Iyer, a bachelor hailing from Tamil Nadu, was found lying
on his bed with a rope tied around his neck and bore injury
marks. He was also hit on his head with a blunt object.
Since there were no sings of struggle, nothing was stolen
from the house and the door was locked from outside, police
suspected that the assailant was known to the deceased.
Iyer's mother told police that her son did not believe in
the institution of marriage. Three bottles of alcohol were
also found in the scientist's apartment, police said.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 17:36