Man Accused Of Stabbing His Vlogger Girlfriend To Death In Bengaluru Arrested

A man who allegedly killed his vlogger girlfriend in Bengaluru and spent two days with the corpse has been arrested, sources said.

Bengaluru:

A man who allegedly killed his vlogger girlfriend in Bengaluru and spent two days with the corpse has been arrested.

Maya Gogoi, a vlogger from Assam, was allegedly killed by her boyfriend Aarav Hanoy in a service apartment earlier this week.

In a macabre twist, the police said the killer spent two days with the corpse at the service apartment. The couple was going through a rift in their relationship and Hanoy allegedly killed Gogoi after she tried to break up with him, according to an initial investigation by the police.

Police said Aarav had escaped to north Karnataka after the murder and then kept moving to different states - Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi - to evade arrest. He returned to Bengaluru on Friday. He was arrested from the Devanahalli area, which is near the airport. 

"After committing the murder, Aarav first went to Raichur in North Karnataka, then reached Varanasi via Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan. As soon as he returned to Bengaluru, he was arrested near the airport." said Deputy Commissioner of Police D Devraj.

The probe so far has revealed that the boyfriend-turned-alleged killer had spent two days with the body of Maya Gogoi, and most of the time he was just smoking cigarettes while sitting in front of the corpse.

The police had formed three teams and launched a manhunt for him. One of the teams went to North Kannda districts and another to Kerala to look for the accused.

Aarav Hanoy, after boarding a taxi from the service apartment, had reached the Majestic area located in the Central Business District of Bengaluru and turned his phone off after that.

According to the police, Maya Gogoi lived with her sister in Bengaluru's HSR Layout.

She had called her sister and told her that she wouldn't come home as she was attending an office party on Friday.

Later, she had sent another message on Saturday stating that she would not come home as she was partying that night as well.

Maya's sister told the police that Aarav and Maya were in a relationship for the last six months after meeting on social media.