Overview
- III Additional District and Sessions Judge Manda Venkateshwara Rao in Kukatpally convicted Karan Singh under IPC Section 302 and imposed a death sentence with a ₹10,000 fine.
- The case traces to July 18, 2011, when Sanathnagar police found a woman’s naked body with multiple stab wounds in bushes beside the Bharathnagar flyover.
- Singh, a blacksmith from Bidar in Karnataka, was arrested on August 11, 2011 and remanded to custody, with the court noting incarceration for six months in 2011–12 and since March 2023.
- Police and prosecution said the stabbing followed an illicit relationship and the woman’s rejection, and police records say he confessed after his arrest.
- Investigators presented technical, circumstantial and witness evidence through a comprehensive chargesheet, and Cyberabad police leaders publicly commended the investigation and prosecution teams.