bengaluru he was smitten by his friends highend motorcycle but didnt have the money to buy it desperate he hatched a sinister plan to eliminate the owner six days after a techie was found dead in his southeast bengaluru flat an engineering graduate has been arrested for the murder he confessed to having killed the techie and scampering off with his bike until now cops were suspecting binge drinking to be the reason for the death the bike a ktm duke 250 priced over a lakh has been recovered from the accused karthik m daulat 30 whos from mysuru and lives in iii block rajajinagaron august 5 kadugodi police recovered the body of sohan haldar kumar employed with an it firm after his colleagues alerted them about the foul smell emanating from his room they had visited his fourthfloor flat to check on sohan after he didnt turn up for work for a few days police found the body lying supine in apartment number 22044 at prestige shantiniketandcp southeast boralingaiah said they registered a murder case under ipc 302 and proceeded with the probe sohans wallet credit cards mobile phone and other valuables were missing the intact door indicated the involvement of an insider cctv footage and the security guards statement helped us identify the accused boralingaiah saida private company employee and a telecommunication engineer karthik confessed to the crime saying he befriended sohan on facebook nine months ago sohan wanted to sell his ktm duke motorbike and had posted the picture on social websites i wanted to buy it but sohan was quoting a very high price so i decided to kill him and steal the bike and other valuables karthik told policeas per the plan karthik visited sohans apartment on the night of august 4 and dined with him i managed to mix cyanide in his food and within no time sohan fell on the floor i stole the valuables and sped away on his motorcycle police said quoting karthiks statement police said karthik purchased 100 grams of cyanide for rs 2700 from a shop in kadugodi we will question the shopowner police saiddcps medical knowledge helpedkadugodi police were of the opinion that sohan may have died of cardiac arrest after an overdose of drugs or alcohol preliminary observations of doctors pointed at liver damagebut dcp boralingaiah an mbbs graduate grew suspicious on seeing the body position and the tongue hanging out of sohans mouth struck between the teeth the body was in an unnatural position the tongue showed that something was amiss we didnt come across any signs of smothering or strangulation but i decided to register a murder case because of the body and tongues position he told toia taste of his own medicinekarthik a graduate from a yelahanka college told police he had stolen a laptop and other valuables from a friend recently i had mixed sleeping pills in his food karthik told police two cases were registered against him in rajajinagar and malleswaram in