Pune techie murder: Absconding second stalker may have killed Antara

Antara Das was murdered on December 23 outside her office in Pune Right The main accused Santosh KumarPune Catching the accused behind the outrageous murder of Pune techie Antara Das remains a puzzle even after the police arrested main accused Santosh Kumar Akhileshprasad Gupta from Bangalore on Wednesday However Santosh was at work in Bangalore when the incident occurred last Friday Cops are now suspecting the involvement of a third person in the murder who is the brother of Santoshrsquos colleague and lives in Pune but is currently abscondingAlso read Pune techies murder Victims father says suspect was harassing her from Bangalore to hereSantosh hails from Ara village in Bihar and currently works in a Bangalorebased software company He met Antara in Bangalore while they were doing a course on Javascript Antara was stabbed to death on December 23 outside her office by an attacker identified only by his black and blue striped tshirtAccused was engagedEyewitness Satyendra Sinha filed a case on the same day The next day Antararsquos parents and twin sister Sanchari came to Pune from Kolkata to perform her last rites and named Santosh as a suspect in their police statements Sanchari told cops her sister had asked Santosh to stop troubling her after he followed her to Pune and proposed to herAlso read Pune 23yearold techie brutally stabbed to deathAdditional superintendent of police Pune rural Rajkumar Shinde said ldquoSantosh and the deceased had known each other for 12 months In August Santosh got engaged and was to get married a month later But 15 days before his wedding he broke off his engagement He was in love with her hersquod also come to Pune with her in April when she came for a job interviewrdquoOther lover lsquoon the runrsquoHe added ldquoAt the time he was staying at the home of his colleaguersquos brother Anshu Gupta who is also a techie Later Santosh used to ask Anshu who Antara was going around with what she was wearing etc It seems that Anshu too began to like Antara as he started sending SMSes to her which she objected to Later she had blocked both the boys Anshu had also procured details about Antara dating another school friend Shersquod warned both of them that she didnrsquot need their help in Pune as she had four male colleagues to help herrdquoldquoAnshu is on the run and we suspect that Santosh might have brainwashed him into committing the murder by saying that Antara is not with anyone of us so let her be killed So Santosh might have used him But we have also found a few transcripts from when she was in Bangalore and went to a pub with a boy named Sameer who tried to take advantage of her when she was drunk We are probing the case and our parallel investigations are being carried out as wellrdquoNot spilling the beansAssistant police inspector Satish Hadghar who is investigating the case said ldquoAccordingly on this information our team rushed to Bangalore and questioned him He claimed he got to know about her murder after we rushed thereWe inspected his workplace and it appeared that on the day of incident he had punched into the office and was also seen on the CCTV Later we brought him to Pune and initially he was so cool that he assured to help us zero down on the culprit We took him to the spot and continued to grill him but he still hasnrsquot spilled the beansrdquoOn Thursday Santosh was produced before the court of judicial magistrate first class and has been remanded to police custody till January 4 After his arrest the police have added Section 120 B criminal conspiracy and 34 common intention of the Indian Penal Code in the existing case