» K. Rasila Raju, a 25-year-old software engineer from Kozhikode, Kerala, was working in her Infosys office Sunday
» Even though it was a holiday, Rasila was at her workstation on the ninth floor of the Infosys building and was interacting with her two colleagues who were online in Bengaluru
» She had come to the office at 2 pm and was supposed to work till 11 pm
» Police got evidence that Bhaben Saikia, the murder suspect, got into Rasila's workstation
» According to police, the accused entered the section on the pretext of noting down serial numbers of some computers
» A tiff over Saikia staring at Rasila led to an argument between the two, said ACP Vaishali Jadhav-Mane.
» Rasila threatened Saikia that she would complain against him to authorities
» Saikia asked Rasila not to complain against him for his actions, but she refused.
» Rasila then went into the conference room. Saikia followed her, and strangled her using a computer cable and then kicked her in the face, according to police.
» The accused stayed on the company premises till his duty ended and later fled to Mumbai from where he was planning to board an Assam-bound train.
» From the CCTV footage, the police confirmed that nobody except the accused was present at the floor at the time of the crime.
Keralite woman techie murdered in Infosys Pune office, security guard held
» The murder might have taken place around 5 pm, police said.
» Around 6.20 pm, her teammates in Bengaluru alerted their team lead that Rasila was not online.
» Rasila's team lead tried to call her, but there was no response.
» The manager then called the security and asked the security guard to go and check
» The security guard found Rasila lying on the floor of conference room with computer cable around her neck and blood all over her face.
» Police got a call around 8 pm from the office after Rasila was spotted unconscious
» Saikia was nabbed around 3 am Monday from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station in Mumbai as he was trying to flee to his native place in Assam
» Saikia was deployed at Infosys for the last six months and before that worked with some other firm.
» The fact that Rasila was murdered while she was working in a secure zone in her office has sent shock waves across the IT community
» This is a second incident in the city in the last few weeks where a woman IT professional became a victim. Antara Das, a 23-year-old IT professional from West Bengal, was brutally murdered last month, a few meters away from her workplace.