#JusticeForMadhu Raichur student death: Police had victim's phone a day before body was found

A young engineering student's body was found half burnt, hanging on a tree on April 16. Initially considered a suicide, later, based on parents' suspicions, an accused was arrested. People held a candlelight march and urged the Karnataka Government to take necessary actions to find out the culprits.

The CID team investigating the mysterious death is questioning the uncle of the suspect, who is in their custody. Sources say that the accused's uncle, who was a station writer at the Sadar Bazaar Police Station, had given the victim's cellphone to the her parents, a day before her body was discovered.

According to The News Minute reports, he was suspended last week. "[He] had given [the victim's parents] the phone saying he had found it. He is being questioned currently. He had handed over the phone one day before her body was found," the source added.

Investigators suspect that she must have been abducted from her college and the accused must have been accompanied by at least one other person as "the woman's scooter was in the college campus. There is no record of her stepping out of the college. There is suspicion of kidnapping, which can be determined after the suspect has been questioned," the source said.

The farm in which her body was found belongs to the accused's father.