Gym trainer murders Flipkart delivery man over smartphone
Police have arrested a Bengaluru gym trainer for allegedly murdering a Flipkart delivery man as he did not have money to pay for the Redmi Note 3 mobile phone he had ordered. The victim was found with his throat slit in the basement of the gym. Reportedly, the accused also stole the other phones in the delivery man's bag.
When a Flipkart delivery man arrived to deliver a smartphone to 22-year-old Varun Kumar, he was murdered. Nanjundaswamy, a Flipkart employee in Bengaluru, went to a gym to deliver a smartphone but Varun was apparently waiting there with a knife. Varun, a gym trainer, ordered the phone online and gave the gym as his address, but since he did not have Rs 11,999 for the Redmi Note 3, he decided to murder the delivery man. According to the police, Varun attacked 29-year-old Nanjundaswamy with an iron rod and a flower pot. Nanjundaswamy's family had filed a missing report after he did not return home for two days.After a few days, Bengaluru Police found the Flipkart delivery man's body in the basement of the building. Varun had apparently slit Nanjundaswamy's throat after he fell unconscious. He then dragged the dead body to the basement cellar.Also read: Flipkart hoodwinked: Hyderabadi youth swindles Rs 20 Lakhs from online retailer"After murdering the victim at around 12.45 pm, the accused hid the body inside the gym as he had difficulties in shifting it. At the time of the incident, there was nobody in the gym. When a few customers came for the evening session, Varun sent them back giving after cooking up a story. Later in the night, after the bank on the first floor and a fruit stall in the basement had shut for the night, Varun shifted the body around 11 pm to the basement. He kept the body in the lift shaft and escaped," said an officer who is part of the investigations as reported by Pune Mirror.  Varun had asked his father to lend him the amount, but he refused and the gym trainer was desperate to get a phone. He kept the phone he had ordered and also stole other phones in the delivery man's bag.