A 20-year-old man in Karnataka, who had ordered an iPhone online, allegedly murdered the delivery agent as he was unable to pay for it.
CCTV footage of the accused, Hemant Datta is getting viral, where he can be seen carrying the victim’s body on his two-wheeler. Datta allegedly stabbed EKart delivery agent Hemanth Naik (23) multiple times on February 7 at his home in Arsikere, Hassan district, causing his death.
According to police, Dutt, who himself is a delivery agent with a courier company, kept the body of Naik in a gunny bag and kept it at his house for three days before dumping it near the railway track and then burning it with kerosene and petrol. In a CCTV video, Datta can be seen riding his bike carrying the body. He was also caught on camera getting petrol filled in a bottle from a petrol pump two days earlier, which he used to burn the body and destroy evidence, said police.
The police launched an investigation after the victim’s brother Manju Naik reported him missing. Naik delivered two parcels on February 7 and left to deliver the third parcel in Lakshmipuram to Hemant Datta. He was missing since then.
“We got the information about a half-burnt dead body near the railway track at Lakshmipuram near Anchekopalu bridge on February 11 morning,” Hassan Superintendent of Police Hariram Shankar told reporters, PTI reported.
Datta had ordered a second-hand iPhone and a cash-on-delivery option was available for the second-hand product, which costs about Rs 46,000 to Rs 47,000, Shankar informed the media.
“Hemanth Datta did not have money to pay. He asked the delivery boy (Hemanth Naik) to stay at home saying he was getting the money. Datta then planned to eliminate him with a knife. When Naik was busy scrolling his phone, Datta slit his throat and stabbed him to death,” Shankar said.
The SP underlined that the victim did not have any enmity or any criminal background and that he committed the crime only to get an iPhone without paying money.