Ex-guard held for minor’s murder chose dark, CCTV-free cellar to commit crime: cops Parents of Orchid Villas display placards at the Press conference organised by Malkajgiri CP on the murder of 5year old child in Bollaram on, Monday.
Hyderabad: Over 24 hours after the ghastly murder of a five-year-old girl at Villa Orchids in Kowkoor, Bollaram police arrested the prime accused Vikram Kumar , a former security guard of the housing society late on Sunday night. Cops said that the accused spent less than 25 minutes inside the gated community to carry out the crime, deliberately choosing a secluded, dark spot in the clubhouse cellar with no CCTV coverage. who the accused spoke to, agreed to pay the ransom of Rs 20 lakh on condition that Vikram first make a WhatsApp video call to prove that the girl was alive, he refused to do so While both the child’s father and grandfather. They family lodged a police complaint at around 9.45 pm on Saturday. After reviewing the investigation, at around 2 am on Sunday, police decided to search within the gated community, focusing on secluded parts of the campus.
He made her his target as he knew she stepped out to play in the evenings and that her family, which maintained a low profile, could afford to pay a ransom,” Malkajgiri police commissioner, B Sumathi, said while announcing his arrest. “That is when our team eventually found the girl’s body in the cellar, a spot that residents rarely visited,” she added. Incidentally, residents of the community told police, Vikram had been caught smoking and drinking in the cellar just a few days earlier.
“Vikram confessed to have killed the girl to make quick money. Immediately afterwards, Vikram exited the gated community through the main gate and called the minor’s family to demand a ransom. He had retrieved their numbers from the register kept at the society’s main gate. When the matter came to the notice of his security agency, he was dismissed from his job. “Meanwhile, after committing the crime, Vikram returned to his room in Kowkoor that he shared with other employees of the security agency.
He later travelled using different modes of transport, including an autorickshaw, and reached Patancheru, where he was apprehended from late on Sunday night,” said the police commissioner.