Overview

• Puneeth Gowda, 28, met 28-year-old married mother Preethi Sundaresh on Facebook two days before their June 21 meetup near Hassan
• They spent the night of June 21 at a lodge near Krishna Raja Sagar, where they reportedly had sexual relations
• An argument over continuing their physical relationship on June 22 in a forested area near KR Pete ended when Gowda struck Preethi with a stone, killing her
• Her husband reported her missing on June 23 and police traced her cellphone to Gowda, leading to his arrest in Mandya on June 25
• Officers exhumed Preethi’s body from Gowda’s Karotigram farmland near the Katteraghatta forest, underscoring the role of mobile data in the probe