Man Wakes Up From Coma, Implicates Two Friends Who Had Thrown Him Off A Building 10 Years Ago

Ten years after a 19-year-old engineering student was thrown off the terrace of a three-storied building in Bengaluru's KR Puram, his two friends?— now software engineers — have been sentenced to seven years in jail. The two have been accused of attempt to murder and were implicated by the victim himself, as reported by TOI.

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Detailed probe took 9 years

The incident sent the victim,?Souvik Chatterjee now 29-year-old, into a coma. He came out if it a year later,?recalled the events on recovery and led investigators to the culprits.?A sketch of the scene of crime drawn by Chatterjee?proved crucial for the prosecution in nailing Shashank Das,?29, from?Assam who works with a private bank?in Delhi; and?Jitendra Kumar Sahu, 32, of Odisha who works in an IT major in Bengaluru. However, it is the detailed investigation that took around 9 years to serve justice to?Chatterjee.

Chatterjee has been bed-ridden after the attempt on his life and living in Kolkata. Two others unidentified locals who assisted in the crime are at large.?

Das was Chatterjee’s classmate then while Sahu was a post graduate student in an engineering college near KR Puram. Investigations revealed that Chatterjee, a third-semester BE student, was a close friend of a girl, who studied at a women’s college on the same campus. Das too had a crush on the girl. However, Chatterjee cut off ties with Das after the latter passed lewd remarks against his mother and the girl.

Angered over his liking, Das narrated the series of events to Sahu. Das called Chatterjee (victim) on the morning of December 6, 2010 and regretted his behaviour. On the pretext of discussion, Das told Chatterjee to come to his own terrace after which Das along with Sahu and two others pushed Chatterjee down from the building.

Das who slipped into a coma, suffered head injuries and was treated for over two months in a private hospital in Bengaluru. He was later shifted to Kolkata, gained consciousness in August 2011 and in the months that followed, recalled what had happened to him.?Avalahalli police registered a case of attempt to murder under IPC section 307 against Das and others on December 23, 2011 based on complaint sent by post by Sunil Chatterjee, Souvik's father. Police arrested Das and Sahu in 2012 and they were given bail later.