The Indiranagar police have solved the one-year-old murder of a city resident with the arrest of a foreign-returned doctor, Joseph Philip Sunny Thomas.
Sunny, a resident of Horamavu, hails from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu. He had practised as a medic in London for eight years, before finally settling down in the city. According to police, he had brutally murdered his friend, Allen D’Souza (51), at his house in HAL II Stage in June 2, 2008. Stating that D’Souza’s neighbour Akash Narayana had filed a complaint in this regard, police said that the victim had succumbed to 17 stab injuries on his body.
According to police, Sunny and D’Souza were both drug addicts and had met in a de-addiction centre in Koramangala. They had then become close friends and decided to celebrate occasionally at their houses. Both of them had legally separated from their wives and children a long time ago.
D’Souza was a businessman in Mumbai before he decided to settle down in HAL.
His brother had paid for his visit to the de-addiction centre. Around the same time, Sunny also came down to the centre, seeking a cure for the same problem. Police said that his main source of income was a plantation in Tamil Nadu.
On that fateful night, the two had met at D’Souza’s house over a bottle of booze. Soon, D’Souza became intoxicated and started yelling at Sunny. This made Sunny furious and he assaulted him with a sharp weapon.
Soon after committing the crime, Sunny fled from the scene. However, the police were able to identify his fingerprints from pieces of evidence left at the spot. Though they launched a full-scale manhunt for Sunny and even visited his native place, Pondicherry, they couldn’t find him.
However, Sunny soon realised that he couldn’t possibly dodge the police forever. Deciding to change his tactics, he approached the Indiranagar police station two months ago and reportedly told the police that he was not responsible for D’Souza’s murder and, later, sought anticipatory bail.
Following this, Indiranagar police inspector Kishore Bharani collected Sunny’s fingerprints before granting him bail. Upon forensic examination, it was discovered that Sunny’s prints matched those found at the crime scene. The police then took him into custody and subjected him to an interrogation, which revealed that he was the alleged murderer.
Indiranagar police are currently working towards cancelling his bail.
Sunny had worked in London as a doctor for eight years. He married an India-born woman in England, and separated from her a few years later. Upon his arrival in Bangalore, he started working in a private hospital. However, he had to quit once they came to know that he was a drug addict.
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