Shailendra Chauhan, 33, allegedly murdered his good friend, Sachin Chauhan, 35, in his rented condo in Gujarat’s Bharuch district on March 25. Over the subsequent three days, Shailendra packed Sachin’s dismembered physique elements in several polythene luggage, saved them in his flat, and disposed of them in elements to “escape being caught”, the police stated as they started piecing collectively the sequence of occasions that led to the crime.
Based on the police, on the day he allegedly murdered Sachin, a pharma firm worker, Shailendra went about his day as common, reporting to work at his Dahej-based firm. On his manner again from work that night, Shailendra allegedly bought giant polythene luggage and girls’s clothes. He returned dwelling and allegedly dismembered Sachin’s physique earlier than cleansing up the blood stains in the home, the police stated.
Over the subsequent three days, from March 26 to March 28, Shailendra allegedly started disposing of Sachin’s physique elements, the police stated. On the morning of March 26, he allegedly dressed up as a lady, rode Sachin’s two-wheeler to the Bholav GIDC space, and dumped a number of the physique elements, together with Sachin’s severed head, within the open drainage line. Shailendra then allegedly withdrew money from an ATM utilizing Sachin’s debit card and switched on Sachin’s telephone to message his household and mislead them, the police stated.
On March 28, when Sachin’s brother arrived in Bharuch, Shailendra allegedly joined him to ‘search for’ Sachin and in addition accompanied the household to the police station in Bharuch city to lodge a lacking individuals criticism. Later, he allegedly returned to get rid of the remaining physique elements and headed to work, the police stated.
On March 29, Shailendra allegedly escaped from Bharuch, citing the dying of a relative in his village. A Bharuch Crime Department staff tracked Shailendra down and nabbed him from Jogipur in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district on Wednesday night. Following his arrest, the Bharuch district police, which is investigating Sachin’s homicide, started reconstructing the timeline of the crime and the next developments within the case.
Based on the police, the 2 buddies had incessantly argued about paying the instalments of a mortgage that Sachin had borrowed from a non-public monetary establishment in his identify for Shailendra. On the evening of March 24, when the 2 met at Shailendra’s condo in Haridham society in Bharuch, they allegedly argued over the funds that Shailendra had been defaulting on, the police stated. However the set off, the police stated, had been a couple of images of Shailendra’s spouse that had been allegedly saved on Sachin’s cell phone.
“The 2 had been buddies from school days and had moved to Bharuch about 10 years in the past to pursue higher careers. They’d monetary transactions between them and infrequently quarrelled over the fee of instalments of a mortgage that Shailendra had acquired by Sachin. They’d additionally been arguing in regards to the images of Shailendra’s spouse on Sachin’s telephone. The accused needed the sufferer to delete his spouse’s images from his telephone. On the evening of March 24, they argued in regards to the points and went to sleep within the accused’s condo. The following morning, on March 25, they engaged in a bitter spat that led Shailendra to seize the kitchen knife and stab Sachin a number of occasions,” a police launch stated.
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Based on the police, Shailendra additionally allegedly confessed to slitting Sachin’s throat whereas stabbing him. “He went about his days as common till March 29, even messaging Sachin’s household to (make them) consider that the sufferer had left his home and needed to interrupt ties along with his household for some causes…That was a ploy to mislead them and the police,” V R Bharwad, Police Inspector, informed The Indian Categorical.
Based on Bharwad, among the many textual content messages allegedly despatched by Shailendra to Sachin’s brother utilizing the sufferer’s telephone had been ones that had been meant to mislead the household into believing that Sachin had dedicated a homicide. “Within the textual content messages posing as Sachin, he narrated elements of the sequence of Sachin’s homicide to make the household consider that it was Sachin who had murdered an unknown man. He additionally despatched a textual content message saying, ‘I’m with one other lady and I would like a divorce from my spouse’. In a unique message, he informed Sachin’s household, ‘I owed cash to the person (allegedly killed), and he spoke indecently about my spouse, prompting me to kill him by smashing a glass bottle on his head’,” Bharwad stated.
Sachin’s brother, nonetheless, was conscious that it was Shailendra who owed Sachin cash and suspected foul play, Bharwad added.
The Bharuch C Division police will produce Shailendra earlier than a Justice of the Peace on Thursday to hunt his custody within the case.
Sachin’s head was discovered inside an open drain in Bholav GIDC on March 29. The next day, elements of his physique from the waist to knee, in addition to his proper arm, had been recovered. The accused allegedly lower off part of the best arm the place the sufferer had an English cursive tattoo of his identify to stop identification.
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On Monday, the police recovered the left hand, and on Tuesday, his torso was recovered from a bag in a drainage line in one other a part of the city.
