
According to preliminary inquiries, the suspects initially injected sedatives into the victim's food to make them drowsy. After that, they took him to a remote area where they slit his throat with a knife and fled. According to the authorities, the murder may have been motivated by the victim's reported extramarital affairs and illegal business dealings.
Four months ago, Loknath married Yashasvini against her parents' wishes while being investigated by the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch for a fraud case. According to reports, he had been threatening and blackmailing her family since september 2023 in an attempt to get them to agree to the marriage.
Following their marriage, he started to harass her and abuse her anytime she refused to comply with his physical demands, according to a Times of india article. He demanded that Yashasvini convince her mother to have sex with him. She eventually broke up with him and went back to live with her parents. However, Loknath reappeared to scare her father, krishna Singh, and other members of her family with dire consequences if she did not return to live with him. Yashasvini and her mother planned his murder because they found all of this unacceptable.
The police claim that Loknath called Yashasvini to let her know he would be meeting her early on Saturday. Around ten a.m., he drove away from home in his SUV. The mother and daughter combined sleeping drugs with food they had made. Loknath had brought some bottles of beer in the hopes of joining Yashasvini for a celebration. Loknath picked up Yashasvini and the food she had packed, then drove to a remote area in BGS Layout. While in the car, they drank beer.
Yashasvini forced him to eat the sedative-laced meal while he was intoxicated and simultaneously gave her mother her whereabouts. hema arrived with a knife and stabbed Loknath twice in the neck when he began to feel sleepy. A trembling Loknath attempted to hide in a parked autorickshaw and sprinted 150 meters. When onlookers arrived at the scene after hearing his cries, they discovered him dead and called the police.