A double homicide through which the killer was associated to the victims instilled concern in Karnataka’s coastal Dakshina Kannada district in 2008. The case remained unsolved for the subsequent 4 years till the killer climbed up a tree in Kerala whereas making an attempt to flee from police in an unrelated case, with movies of the incident going viral.
In Siribagilu, a hamlet within the Western Ghats positioned 51 km from Mangaluru, 23-year-old Soumya and her son Jishnu, 3, had been discovered lifeless at their dwelling by an area girl on August 2, 2008.
The Puttur rural police discovered {that a} gold chain belonging to Soumya was lacking. Because the investigations progressed, a neighbour knowledgeable the police that she had seen Soumya’s brother-in-law Jayesh strolling out of the home hours earlier than the our bodies had been found.
Whereas the police started the investigation, they had been unable to seek out Jayesh regardless of travelling to varied locations he typically visited.They then turned to Sameer, who lived within the area.
A police officer mentioned, “Jayesh had transformed to Islam when he was 17 years previous and his lifelong good friend was Sameer. The police went to Sameer’s dwelling, the place he mentioned that Jayesh had requested him to promote a gold chain. Sameer’s mom Rukiya Bhanu helped promote the gold decoration, however they had been unaware that it had been stolen after the murders of Soumya and her son.”
The police went to the pawn store the place the gold chain had been offered and confirmed that it belonged to Soumya.
Jayesh, who was in his 20s when the murders occurred, is the son of Shashikanth N A. After changing to Islam, Jayesh renamed himself as Shakeer alias Shahir. Previous to the murders, he had been launched on bail in a theft case. The police had a photograph of him that was already 4 years previous.
A police officer mentioned, “Our major suspicion was that he would contact Sameer sometime, both over the telephone or in particular person. Sameer remained on the police radar however Jayesh by no means contacted him.”
A tree climb that value Jayesh pricey
Unable to hint Jayesh, the police filed a closure report and the concern within the village light over time.
By then, Suresh Kumar P had been transferred as circle inspector of the Puttur rural police station. “We didn’t know the place Jayesh was, and truthfully, there have been no efforts to hint him. The one photograph we had was from 4 years earlier than the double homicide, and I used to be posted to Puttur rural in 2012. With an eight-year-old photograph and no monitor of assembly identified contacts, the case had not moved anyplace.”
In October 2012, a information video from Kerala caught the eye of the police. On October 7, Jayesh and his good friend Anas had been arrested in Alappuzha for allegedly assaulting a girl inebriated. Nevertheless, Jayesh managed to flee.
Jayesh climbed a tree to evade the police, and regardless of a number of requests, he refused to come back down. Native media started telecasting the video of police pleading with Jayesh to get down from the coconut tree. Finally, hearth personnel had been known as in to carry him down.
Suresh Kumar mentioned, “A police officer who was interrogating Jayesh in Kerala known as to tell me that that they had arrested a person from Dakshina Kannada district in an assault case. He then shared the information clips, and what instantly caught in my thoughts was the double homicide case that had remained unsolved for 4 years. We reached Kerala, and upon arriving on the police station, it was confirmed that it was Jayesh alias Shakeer who was wished within the double homicide.”
In response to the police, after killing his sister-in-law and her son, Jayesh alias Shakeer escaped to Kerala, the place he began working as a labourer. He fell in love with a Muslim woman and married her and the couple had a baby.
“If it was only a case of assaulting a girl, the media may not have highlighted it. It was solely as a result of he climbed up the coconut tree that it grew to become an fascinating story for them to comply with. Had he not climbed the tree, I believe we’d not have arrested him,” Kumar mentioned laughing.
When questioned by the police about why he killed Soumya, Jayesh claimed he did so to steal her gold chain, as he was in want of cash. Requested why Jishnu was killed, he mentioned the kid had witnessed the primary homicide and that he didn’t need to go away any witnesses.
Conviction
The Puttur rural police filed a chargesheet containing 15 items of proof and statements from 27 people. The prosecution argued that Soumya and Jishnu had been harmless and helpless.
On August 9, 2016, the fifth Extra District and Classes Court docket of Dakshina Kannada ordered the dying penalty for Jayesh. Decide M Ramachandra mentioned in his order, “This case matches into the framework of the rarest of uncommon instances. The accused deserves no sympathy, and considering society at massive, since there is no such thing as a safety for the lives of harmless individuals just like the deceased and in addition the risk posed by the accused to the witnesses who deposed in opposition to him, they might not obtain any safety. From an individual just like the accused, society can’t count on any service to the group; therefore, he has no proper to dwell sooner or later for his ugly genocide of deceased Soumya and her baby Jishnu.”
Suresh Kumar recollects that by the top of the trial, Jayesh had realised he couldn’t escape from the regulation. “We had an eyewitness who noticed Jayesh strolling after killing the duo. There was additionally scientific proof supporting the case. The truth is, the gold decoration was recovered. Because the trial neared its conclusion, Jayesh started behaving erratically. On one event, he threw slippers on the decide through the listening to and tried to flee from the court docket on one other.”
Jayesh later approached the Karnataka Excessive Court docket, which commuted his dying penalty to life imprisonment on October 13, 2017.
Lodged in Hindalga Central Jail in Belagavi, Jayesh got here on the police radar once more after he made a risk name to Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s workplace. He then allegedly made a ransom name in search of Rs 100 crore, claiming to be a member of the Dawood Ibrahim gang. The Nationwide Investigation Company ultimately filed a closure report within the risk case earlier than a Mumbai court docket, citing an absence of proof.
In June this yr, Jayesh made headlines once more when he raised “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans whereas attending court docket in a case registered in opposition to him.
