Police clueless in BARC scientist's murder

Close to a week after the murder of a 48-year-old BARC scientist, City police who had claimed to have clues in case are still groping in the dark for a breakthrough.
    
"Investigations are on. We are still to get a breakthrough (in the murder case)," said K V Kale, investigating officer at Gamdevi police station.
    
Mahadevan Padmanabhan Iyer, a mechanical engineer working in the BARC's Reactor Group, was found murdered in his first floor apartment in the BARC quarters near Breach Candy Hospital in south Mumbai on the night of February 22.
    
Police suspect the scientist could be a gay and could have been a victim of a strained affair.
    
The next day of the murder, joint police commissioner Himanshu Roy had claimed they had clues and would crack the case soon. As part of the probe, police inspector Kale had
recently gone out of Mumbai but in vain.
    
Iyer, a bachelor hailing from Tamil Nadu, was found lying on his bed with a rope tied around his neck and bore injury marks. He was also hit on his head with a blunt object.
    
Since there were no sings of struggle, nothing was stolen from the house and the door was locked from outside, police suspected that the assailant was known to the deceased.
    
Iyer's mother told police that her son did not believe in the institution of marriage. Three bottles of alcohol were also found in the scientist's apartment, police said.