bengaluru on november 17 the body of a 67yearold transport businessman was found stuffed in plastic bags and wrapped in bedsheets on a roadside in rose garden area of jp nagar it has now emerged that the body was dumped by a woman with help from her husband and brother in a bid to avoid courting infamy as the businessman had died in her house police said while no injuries were found on the businessman his family suspected foul play as the body was found abandoned in a public place puttenahalli police registered a case of suspicious death under section 174c of the criminal procedure code based on a complaint filed by the son of the deceased investigation however revealed that the 35yearold woman a homemaker from sarakki and the businessmans lover was behind it according to cops the deceased had undergone an angiogram in august 2022 and was also suffering from other health issues he left his residence on november 16 evening and informed his daughterinlaw at 455pm that he would return by 7pm when he did not reach home his family tried to contact him over phone and found his mobile was switched offcall log leads to womanthey filed a missingperson complaint with subramanyapura police puttenahalli cops found his body around 8am on november 17 and alerted his kin cops realised that someone had dumped the body in rose garden area they verified the deceaseds call log and the last call he attended on november 16 led them to the woman from sarakki after being picked up for questioning she told police she knew the deceased for a while and he had visited her residence a few times she said he had come to her house around 5pm on november 16 fell on the bed and appeared to have had an epileptic attack she put a key in his hand and rubbed his legs and hands but he passed away she confessed she did not alert police or the mans relatives out of fear that it would reveal her relationship with him so she informed her husband and brother and sought their help to shift the body from the house they stuffed the body in two plastic sacks a towel and two bedsheets transported it in a twowheeler and dumped it in rose garden police initially registered a noncognizable case against the trio for destroying evidence they later registered an fir under sections 176 omission to give notice or information to public servant by person legally bound to give it 201 causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender 202 intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform and 34 acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention of ipc police are now waiting for the autopsy report to know the exact cause of death the case is still under investigation and we are waiting for the autopsy report and the doctors opinion it will help us