B'lore murder: Old beau killed Tania

Bangalore/Kolkata: There has been a breakthrough in the call centre employee's murder case that has shaken up the BPO community in Bangalore.

On Thursday, Tania Banerjee's former colleague, Gururaj Kishore, confessed to the murder, police said.

Tania had left for home with Kishore on Tuesday night, when he allegedly stabbed her in a fit of rage when she refused to marry him.

Tania was found dead with 25 stab wounds 200 km from Bangalore on Wednesday.

Police on Thursday arrested Kishore and seized his car.

"She was a very caring and friendly girl. It’s very shocking that someone could do something like this to her. I have no clue what is happening. But something has to be done about this chap because he picked her up from work," Tania’s friend, Ajay Ashok said.

Twenty-five-year-old Tania was working at her Whitefield office till 2130 hours IST on Tuesday night. Aviva, the company she worked for, said in a statement, that she did not leave in the company car.

Almost 24 hours later Tania's body was found near the Bangalore-Mangalore highway at Sakleshpur.

Back home in Kolkata, her family, which has already lost two members in the past two years, is devastated. Her father is inconsolable.

Two years ago, Tania's elder brother was killed in an accident, a year later their mother passed away.

The retired Railway Police Force employee hadn't even gotten over the tragic losses when news of his daughter's brutal murder reached him.

"He is so shocked that he cannot express it in words," a family friend, Swarup Pal said.

The BPO community in Bangalore is also shaken with the gruesome murder case.

In December 2005, a taxi-driver had raped and killed a 24-year-old call centre employee in Bangalore.

(With inputs from Deepa Balakrishnan in Bangalore and Sougata Mukhopadhaya in Kolkata)

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