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I'll drink poison if you say no'
Updated On: 09 July, 2010 08:13 AM IST | | B V Shiva Shankar
Advocate Rajappa reportedly got furious after Naveena remained unmoved by his threats to consume poison from this bottle of rum if she kept turning him down
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Advocate Rajappa reportedly got furious after Naveena remained unmoved by his threats to consume poison from this bottle of rum if she kept turning him down
Advocate S L Rajappa's last-ditch efforts to win over Naveena JS (24), his ladylove and victim, by threatening to consume poison from a bottle of rum in his hand reportedly did not move her.
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It was her lack of response that, bystanders who witnessed the incident, said, provoked murderous rage in Rajappa, who stabbed her to death her in the high court premises yesterday.
Rajappa also stabbed himself but survived and was, when this paper went to print, struggling for his life at the Mallya Hospital.
A bottle of rum has been recovered from him from the spot.
"On Wednesday, Rajappa pleaded with Naveena to marry him, and she refused. They had a heated argument and Rajappa threatened that he would kill her and then commit suicide.
After we sent Naveena home that day, we tried to counsel him to get a hold on himself," said a friend of Rajappa.
Later that day, Rajappa reportedly had a drink at a bar at Wilson Garden near Lalbagh. He is believed to have also purchased a bottle of rum from the bar.
"I saw the bottleu00a0 on the spot, where the murder was committed. I also detected a faint poison-like smell in the air," explained Bharathi, an oath commissioner in the court, who was closely associated with Naveena.
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"Rajappa also vomited in the toilet, where he stabbed himself. I also heard some policemen say that it was likely that Rajappa had consumed poison."
Bharathi added that she was a few metres away, when Rajappa attacked Naveena yesterday.
Advocate S L Rajappa's last-ditch efforts to win over Naveena JS (24), his ladylove and victim, by threatening to consume poison from a bottle of rum in his hand reportedly did not move her.
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It was her lack of response that, bystanders who witnessed the incident, said, provoked murderous rage in Rajappa, who stabbed her to death her in the high court premises yesterday.
Rajappa also stabbed himself but survived and was, when this paper went to print, struggling for his life at the Mallya Hospital.
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| Emergency staff with advocate Naveena JS's body after SL Rajappa stabbed her to death after she refused to marry him.u00a0 |
A bottle of rum has been recovered from him from the spot.
"On Wednesday, Rajappa pleaded with Naveena to marry him, and she refused. They had a heated argument and Rajappa threatened that he would kill her and then commit suicide.
After we sent Naveena home that day, we tried to counsel him to get a hold on himself," said a friend of Rajappa.
Later that day, Rajappa reportedly had a drink at a bar at Wilson Garden near Lalbagh. He is believed to have also purchased a bottle of rum from the bar.
"I saw the bottleu00a0 on the spot, where the murder was committed. I also detected a faint poison-like smell in the air," explained Bharathi, an oath commissioner in the court, who was closely associated with Naveena.
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"Rajappa also vomited in the toilet, where he stabbed himself. I also heard some policemen say that it was likely that Rajappa had consumed poison."
Bharathi added that she was a few metres away, when Rajappa attacked Naveena yesterday.
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