IBM employee allegedly killed by her social media friend

Bengaluru: An IBM employee living in her Bengaluru apartment has been murdered by a man she befriended on social media. Kusum Singla, 31, was found dead in her apartment by her flatmate after the latter returned from work in the evening. She had been hit with a sharp object and was strangled with the cord of her laptop, the police said. The murder was quickly solved, followed by the arrest of a man called Sukhbir Singh. “She was lying in a pool of blood. Our team spent six to seven hours at the scene of crime and identified the suspect,” said senior police officer P Harisekharan. The case, he said, was cracked in three hours and Sukhbir was tracked through social media posts and cell phone records. Sukhbir Singh was arrested from Haryana for the murder.