Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar mentioned on Wednesday that the accused, who allegedly murdered a 28-year-old girl accountant working for a multinational enterprise course of outsourcing (BPO) agency in Pune, was carrying a kitchen knife — the homicide weapon — in his laptop computer bag for 3 days until he assaulted her on January 7. Each the accused and the sufferer labored as accountants for a similar agency.
The police commissioner mentioned that use of steel detectors or pattern checks would guarantee such incidents don’t occur. Kumar was talking to a gathering of representatives from the Info Know-how (IT) and different company sector corporations from Magarpatta Metropolis, addressing their numerous security and safety considerations, and different points confronted by them, together with site visitors. The interplay was organised beneath the purview of the seven-point motion plan given by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for higher functioning of presidency departments.
The incident had taken place round 6.15 pm on January 7 within the car parking zone of a multinational BPO, WNS International Companies, situated in Yerawada. The sufferer, Shubhada Shankar Kodare (28), who had sustained an harm on her hand, succumbed as a result of extreme bleeding. The accused, Krishna Satyanarayan Kanoja (30), a resident of Shivajinagar, was arrested. Investigation has revealed that the 2 had been having a dispute over cash Kodare had borrowed from Kanoja, which he was asking her to return.
Talking in regards to the safety situation at personal companies, Kumar mentioned, “I wish to check with the incident in one of many corporations on January 7. A younger lady was assaulted and she or he succumbed to her accidents. The incident may be very delicate and we’ve got been taking it with utmost seriousness to make sure that the perpetrator is severely punished. From the police’s standpoint, we regularly say that some incidents are preventable and a few others aren’t preventable, theoretically. The lady had a dispute with a coworker, which resulted in a bodily assault on her resulting in her dying. We’re very sorry for the household.”
“It has come to note that the accused was carrying a kitchen knife in his laptop computer bag for 3 days earlier than the incident really occurred. So the purpose arises that we’ve got to make sure that the entry management mechanism… corporations don’t simply examine whether or not the particular person is authorised to enter or not. However there will even should be a mechanism to examine whether or not these authorised to enter are carrying something undesirable or unauthorised within the bag or on the particular person. So an efficient use of DFMDs and HHMDs (Door Body Metallic Detectors and Hand Held Metallic Detectors) or pattern checks of luggage would go a great distance in guaranteeing that undesirable issues don’t attain the corporate and workplace premises and incidents like these may be prevented,” he mentioned.
“In gentle of the occasion, although we weren’t in a position to stop that incident as a result of purpose I enumerated, we’ve got to make sure that such incidents don’t occur once more at any price. Once I say we, I imply we because the police and also you as residents,” Kumar mentioned.
The investigation discovered that Kodare had borrowed cash from Kanoja occasionally during the last two years. He had lent her near Rs 4.5 lakh in whole. She had borrowed the cash citing causes like remedy of her father and for her personal remedy as a result of she had diabetes. In June final yr, Kanoja had an eye fixed surgical procedure for which he required cash. He was asking for the cash he lent to Kodare however she saved promising that she would repay it quickly. In accordance with the probe, Kanoja needed to threaten Kodare to get his a refund with the kitchen knife. Moments after Kanoja attacked her, she referred to as her father telling what had occurred. The accused too spoke to her father and reiterated his demand for reimbursement of the cash he had lent her, the probe has revealed. Kodare succumbed to her accidents later.
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In the meantime, a truth discovering committee has been shaped by the Nationwide Fee for Ladies (NCW) to research the matter. The committee just lately visited the situation of the crime, met the relations and colleagues of the sufferer and likewise met senior functionaries, together with the police commissioner, PMC commissioner and district collector.
