Pimpri Chinchwad police have solved the brutal homicide of a migrant employee with only one clue accessible — a visible of a courier bag obtained from a CCTV digicam. Police have arrested a watchman and a courier supply employee in reference to the case, during which even the title of the deceased was not identified until arrests have been made.
Early morning on Tuesday, a person’s physique was discovered behind the compound of the district hospital in Aundh. The person had been bludgeoned to demise with a heavy rock. Initially, police might discover no leads concerning the identification of the deceased, or any clues concerning the suspect or motive.
Upon checking CCTV footage from cameras on the method roads to the situation, Pimpri Chinchwad police discovered footage of the deceased using a motorcycle with two others, going to a liquor store to purchase alcohol the night time earlier than the homicide. Whereas the digicam had captured the deceased and doable suspects, there have been no clues about their identities.
As police examined the footage intently, they found that one of many different two people was carrying a bag usually utilized by courier supply executives. Pursuing the lead, police discovered the suspect had entered an alley in the identical space, the place police additionally discovered a courier firm workplace. An inquiry on the workplace revealed the identification of the suspect as Shiv Mangal Singh (38), a local of Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh, and dealing as a courier supply govt for a while. His cellphone location revealed that he was on the transfer and passing via Ahmednagar district. It additionally got here to gentle that Singh and another particular person have been travelling on a personal bus, which the police intercepted in Washim district. Police arrested Singh and his confederate Somdatta Dube (22) of Chitrakoot who labored as watchman in Pune.
“A probe revealed that Singh and Dube had been working in Pune and the deceased Jitendra Tripathi alias Pappu (30), who was from their native village, had come to Pune lower than week in the past searching for work. The 2 had bludgeoned Tripathi to demise following repeated fights with him since his arrival. They strangled and bludgeoned him to demise following a combat the earlier night time,” mentioned an officer from Pimpri Chinchwad police.
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