Haveri, March 15 -- Former Karnataka Chief Minister and MP Basavaraj Bommai said on Saturday that there was a lapse by the police in the Swati Byadgi murder case and that only a thorough investigation would bring out the truth.

Bommai was speaking to reporters after visiting Swati's residence in Masoor village here.

Swati, who worked as a nurse at a hospital in Ranebennur, had been reported missing at the Hirekerur police station on March 3. Her body was discovered on March 6 near the Tungabhadra River in the Fatehpur village of Ranebennur Taluk, Haveri District.

Bommai said that young girls are being misled and trapped through various temptations, only to be abandoned later.

"The police claimed that they found the body three days lat...