Techie murder case: Accused remanded in judicial custody

A 24-year-old man, who was arrested in connection with the murder of a young woman IT professional here last month, was today remanded in judicial custody by a court here.
Santosh Kumar Gupta, a software professional working in Bengaluru, was arrested by Pune district police on charges of conspiracy and murder of 23-year-old Antara Das.
Das was allegedly attacked by an unidentified person with a sharp-edged weapon near Kanbay chowk in Talawade in the outskirts on December 23 night, barely 500 m from her workplace.
"We sought two-day additional police custody of Gupta, however, court remanded him in judicial custody and sent him to jail," said a police officer.

Police had detained and later arrested Gupta after Antara's parents had expressed their suspicion about him, alleging that Gupta was harassing and stalking her.
After the arrest, police, while seeking Gupta's custody had told the court that the accused, who was stalking and harassing Antara, had hatched a conspiracy with the attacker to kill her after she rejected his proposal.