PTI
Pune
A security guard was arrested for allegedly killing a 23-year-old woman IT professional working at software major Infosys at the company's Hinjewadi campus here, police said on Monday.
Rasila Raju OP was found dead in a conference room on the 9th floor of the Infosys building in Phase II of Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park last evening. The systems engineer, who hailed from Kozhikode district of Kerala, had allegedly been strangulated with a computer cable.
A local court remanded the accused Bhaben Saikia, a security guard from Terrier Security Services deployed at the campus, in police custody till February 4 after police nabbed him at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai.
An officer from Hinjewadi police station said Saikia, hailing from Assam, told police during questioning that on Saturday Rasila had chided him for 'staring' at her, and threatened to complain.
“Rasila came to the office at 2 pm on Sunday and was working in a section on the ninth floor while her two teammates were working online (with her) from Bangalore,” said deputy commissioner of police Ganesh Shinde at a press conference on Monday.
The accused entered the section on the pretext of noting down serial numbers of some computers. “He then asked her not to complain against him for his actions, however, she refused,” Shinde said.
Rasila then went into the conference room. Saikia followed her, and strangled her using a computer cable and then kicked her in the face, the DCP said.
“The accused stayed on the company premises till his duty ended and later fled to Mumbai from where he was planning to board an Assam-bound train,” the officer added.
