BENGALURU: Just four hours after a murder convict was released from the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison on emergency parole, he was killed by two brothers, at a lodge where he was staying. The incident was reported in Janapriya lodge on Bazaar Street in Yashwantpur on Wednesday night.
The deceased has been identified as Mahadevaswamy alias Mahadev, 32, a native of Kyathanahalli in Malavalli in Mandya district. He was convicted in a murder case in 2008 and serving life term at Parappana Agrahara jail.
According to the police, Mahadev was released on an emergency parole for 15 days on Wednesday around 7 pm. After the release, he went to Yashwantpur and booked a room in Janapriya lodge. Around 10.30 pm, Vinod and brother Sanjay came to the lodge and knocked on room number 72, where Mahadev was staying.
As he opened the door, the brothers hit his head with a beer bottle and dragged him out of the lodge. There they smashed his head with a stone and killed him. The duo escaped from the scene after confirming he was dead.
“The lodge staff alerted the police, who swung into action and arrested the brothers, both residents of Goraguntepalya, within three hours. They have confessed to the murder and revealed that they did it to avenge the murder of their nephew. Also, they had received information that Mahadev was planning to attack them,” the police said.
Mahadev was working with Vinod and Sanjay, who owned a fast food outlet, in 2005. There was a case against Mahadev in Gubbi police station in Tumakuru and the police were on the look out.
Twenty days after he started work at the outlet, he was nabbed by the police. Mahadev, thought that it was Radha Bai, wife of one of the brothers, who tipped off the police, as she was unhappy with his work and used to frequently scold him. After coming out on bail, he went to her house but she was not there.
However, Sanjay’s elder brother’s wife Kirana and her two-and-a-half-year old son Rahul were at home. He picked up quarrel with Kirana and stabbed her before strangling the toddler to death. Kirana survived the attack and Mahadeva was convicted in the case. The Yashwantpur police have registered a murder case and begun investigations.
Prison staff flouted norms to release Mahadeva?
The slain murder convict Mahadevaswamy alias Mahadev alias Paanipuri was reportedly one of the prominent drug peddlers in the Parappana Agrahara central prison. Earlier, it was revealed that the prison staff had tried to help him go on parole without following the guidelines. Even now, it is alleged that he was released on an emergency parole without following procedures and by submitting some fake documents. “If there was an emergency, he should have gone directly to his family. Why a person in emergency would go to a lodge?,” a prison source pointed out.
In January, Deccan Chronicle had exposed how the prison staff were helping the convicts to go on parole by sending applications seeking police report to wrong email IDs of SPs, so that they could consider as ‘no response from police’ and could release the inmates on parole. They had tried the same to release Paanipuri (convict prisoner no. 757) but when DC brought the matter to the notice of senior officials, their efforts were foiled.
“Even this time, he was released by furnishing all bogus documents. It was a favour done by the staff as he collected money from visitors and gave it to them. An inmate’s monthly wage is around Rs 600 but Mahadev had deposited almost Rs 1 lakh in his prisoners personal cash account in prison. He was mentioning the names of the family members or friends while depositing the money by claiming that they had given him the money. In fact, he got it by collecting money from visitors and selling drugs.
Two convict leaders lobbied with a jailer and a desk clerk and ensured his release,” the source revealed. It is also alleged that the staff did not call the police station to inform about his release, but put a note that a call was made. “No surety was also taken as per the procedure,” the source added.
