What was believed to be a case of a man in Bharuch killing his buddy in a match of rage final month has turned out to be a premeditated homicide for which the accused had bought the weapon of offence – a butcher’s knife – a day upfront, police mentioned.
Investigating into the dying of 35-year-old Sachin Chauhan, police accomplished the reconstruction of the sequence of the crime on Monday.
Police mentioned they’ve recovered the knife in addition to the noticed that the accused, Shailendra Chauhan, had used to cut Sachin’s physique into items earlier than stuffing them into polythene baggage and disposing of them in numerous elements of the town over the following few days.
Sachin was allegedly killed on the evening of March 25.
One other indisputable fact that has come to the fore in the course of the probe is that Shailendra withdrew Rs 20,000 from Sachin’s ATM card on March 27, two days after allegedly murdering him, mentioned police.
Shailendra, who’s in an eight-day police custody that ends April 11, has maintained his model that his most important competition with Sachin was the presence of “objectionable photos” of his spouse within the cell phone of the deceased, police mentioned.
Whereas the Bharuch C Division police station is investigating the small print of the monetary transactions between the 2 associates that would presumably have been a motive for the alleged homicide, Shailendra claimed that he had paid the due mortgage installments to Sachin.
Police Inspector VR Bharwad informed The Indian Specific, “It has been confirmed that earlier than inviting him for dinner, Shailendra had bought a butcher’s knife that he later used to stab Sachin to dying. Shailendra has mentioned that though he was below immense strain due to the cash he owed Sachin, he had been repaying the quantity. He has maintained that the competition was the images of his spouse on Sachin’s cellphone that the deceased had taken in the course of the interval the 2 households used to share an house in Bharuch.”
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Bharwad mentioned, “Most likely, cash angle is concerned as Shailendra had withdrawn money from Sachin’s ATM card on March 27. We’ve got accomplished the reconstruction of the crime scene on Monday, starting with Shailendra’s dwelling, the place the 2 had met on the evening of March 25, in addition to the locations the place he dumped the physique elements.”
Earlier, investigation had revealed that Shailendra used to decorate up as a girl earlier than heading out to eliminate the dismembered physique elements of the sufferer in numerous spots of a drainage line in Bharuch, police mentioned.
Whereas no different witnesses have been discovered within the case to date, the police have come throughout CCTV footage of Shailendra purportedly driving a two-wheeler whereas disguised as a girl, police mentioned. Based on the police, the accused disposed of the physique elements in the course of the wee hours of every day from March 26 and 29. One CCTV video has proven that Shailendra was out at 4.20 am, driving the two-wheeler in a abandoned space alongside the drainage line; round half an hour later, he returned by way of the identical street after allegedly disposing of the baggage, mentioned police.
Police mentioned that apart from the knife and the noticed, the garments bought by Shailendra to disguise himself as a girl have additionally been recovered.
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Earlier, the police had mentioned that the day after the homicide, Shailendra had reported to work as standard at his Dahej-based firm whilst Sachin’s physique lay in his house. Shailendra had allegedly continued to report back to work till March 29, whereas disposing of the physique elements every day.
Shailendra had chopped Sachin’s tattooed forearm into items to stop identification, police had mentioned. Nevertheless, the three dots on the finish of Sachin’s tattoo helped his kin determine his physique, police added.
