Bengaluru: The state home department handed over the investigation of the murder case of Madhu Pattar, an engineering student of Raichur to the CID.
An order was issued on Saturday late evening by the home department.
The decision to hand over the investigation to the CID was taken following the public outrage against the Raichur police for delay in the case registration, alleged negligence in the investigation etc.
It can be recalled that the decomposed body of Madhu Pattar, a 23 years old, civil engineering student of an engineering college of Raichur was recovered from a deserted place in the city outskirts on April 16. She went missing on April 13.
The police arrested a youth in connection with suicide.