HAL police on Saturday arrested 54-year-old software engineer Imdad Basha for allegedly poisoning a 45-year-old female friend to death and making it look like suicide.
Police became suspicious of the woman’s death checked the call records and then arrested Basha. He was charged with murder and sent to judicial custody.
According to police, the victim Uzma Khan was found dead at Basha’s apartment on January 1. Basha was also found half-conscious in the same apartment. Police registered an unnatural death report under suspicious death.
“A resident of the same apartment complex had called the police helpline after hearing loud noises from Basha’s apartment. When we reached the apartment, both Basha and Uzma were found lying on the floor. Basha had claimed that they both decided to end their lives and consumed poison. However, Uzma’s brother found something amiss and ran a few checks to ascertain Basha’s role in his sister’s death,” said the police.
Uzma’s brother found out that on December 31 night Basha had sent his sister a picture of food he had cooked. He suspected that Basha had invited Uzma to his home on New Year’s Eve and had given her food laced with poison.
Based on this suspicion Uzma’s brother filed a complaint that Basha had killed his sister. Police arrested him & sent him to judicial custody.
According to police, both Uzma and Basha were married to different people but later divorced from their respective partners. They had then decided to get married.
“Uzma’s parents wanted to get her married again, and they started looking for a groom. She had even started talking with a potential groom,” the officer said.
Basha recently found out that Uzma was talking to someone else and decided to eliminate her, according to police. In this attempt, he allegedly poisoned Uzma and consumed a small dose of poison to create an alibi.
