According to an Indian Express report, the breakthrough came via painstaking legwork: police teams visited every contact from the call-detail records, traced irregular activity in a Bengaluru neighbourhood, and discovered two egg-crates purchased at a local shop — a small but telling clue leading to a suspect’s new residence. The suspect, along with two accomplices, eventually confessed, revealing that the murder was premeditated. Court records from 2005 show life sentences were handed down — though one convict briefly absconded before being re-arrested in 2014.