BENGALURU: Shyam Sundar Yadav had earned a lot of goodwill at Bidadi’s gated community Eagleton The Golf Village over the past 20 years, beginning as a mason in late 1990s.
Now a civil contractor, Shyam is helplessly watching on as his son Joginder Kumar Yadav has frittered it all away after he was arrested for the murder of his employers, retired IAF pilot Raghurajan and his wife, who lived in a villa in the enclave.
The younger Yadav, instead of continuing to build on the goodwill, allegedly killed Raghurajan and his wife to repay loans raised during his marriage. Bidadi police are looking for Ravindra Yadav, Joginder’s cousin and partner in the crime.
Investigation revealed Shyam was among the workers at Eagleton The Golf Village during its initial stages in the late 1990s. “For over 15 years, he worked in the gated community in different capacities, including mason. Around six years ago, he became an independent civil contractor and settled down in Bidadi,” sources said.
Through Shyam, many of his relatives and migrants from Katoria village in Banka district of Bihar, found their livelihood in and around Bengaluru as daily-wage workers, carpenters and small-time civil contractors. However, Joginder landed a job at Raghurajan’s villa not through his father but a placement agency.
“With an infant and his wife, Joginder came to his father around eight months ago. He got himself registered with a local placement agency in Bengaluru. Meanwhile, the Raghurajan couple was looking for a help to take care of their dog and for gardening. They approached the association of their gated community, and its office-bearers handed over the placement agency contact number. This is how Joginder landed in Raghurajan’s house for a monthly salary of Rs 8,000,” police sources said.
“Around one month ago, Joginder, who was standing near his employer, observed how Raghurajan made online payments through his phone. He never locked the screen. Joginder succeeded in transferring Rs 70,000 to one of his creditors, saying he was repaying his loan. He thought he could easily repay his loan of around Rs 3 lakh if he could transfer money from Raghurajan’s account,” the sources said.
However, Raghurajan became alert on seeing that someone else had transferred Rs 70,000 from his account. Since then, he started locking the screen and always carried the mobile with him. Seeing his plan of making easy money falling apart, Joginder decided to eliminate the couple and flee with cash and gold ornaments.
“We request people to follow precautionary measures while allowing a third person into their house. Do not reveal anything in front them. In this case, the accused found he could make some easy money by cheating the elderly couple and decided to kill them when his plan did not succeed, ” said inspector general of police (central range) M Chandrasekhar.
