Senior manager of top IT firm in Bengaluru nabbed for 15 year old sensational case of murder of wife

Ahmedabad: The crime branch of Ahmedabad police has nabbed an executive employee of well-known IT firm Oracle in Bengaluru and the main suspect and husband of a woman who was murdered in Bopal area of the city over 15 years ago.

JCP of crime branch J K Bhatt told newsmen here that Tarun Jinraj has been nabbed from Bengaluru where he was living with changed identity for several years and working in the IT company at an annual package of Rs 18 to 22 lakhs.

He was working as a senior manager with Oracle in Bannerghatta Road in Bengaluru under the name Pravin Bhateley. He stayed in BTM Layout II Stage.Tarun is the prime suspect in the sensational murder of Sajni Jinaraj in Ahmedabad-Bopal area on February 14, 2003. He has command over 8 languages.

The body of Tarun’s wife Sajni was found hanging in his flat on the third floor of an apartment in Bopal. He had told police that looters had raided his apartment and killed Sajni, 26, a bank executive, before fleeing with valuables.

Going by present evidence, including the manner in which household articles were strewn around the flat, police suspected the involvement of an insider. Two days after Sajni’s death, Tarun disappeared .

Bhatt said that Tarun had killed his wife to marry a girl whom he had befriended during his job at DPS here but after the incident he could not marry her. He fled to Delhi and later to Pune where he got married to another girl and was having kids from her. He then went to Bengaluru.

Bhatt said that ACP Sarkhej would now do the detailed investigation in the case.

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