13 February,2024 10:08 PM IST | Palghar | Diwakar Sharma
The accused in police custody. Pic/Hanif Patel
The Palghar Police in Maharashtra have solved a murder case with the help of the deceased's finger print that helped investigators to establish his identity and later arrest three accused from Hyderabad.
Mokhada Police had registered a First Information Report (FIR) after they recovered an unknown body of a man near Vaitarna river on February 3. There were a few tattoos on both his hands and near his thumb.
"It was an absolutely blind case as some unknown people had dumped the body near Vaitarna river. We recovered the body and filed an FIR under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (disappearance of evidence) of IPC," said Pradeep Gite, the in-charge of Mokhada Police station told mid-day.
He added, we took the fingerprint of the deceased and matched it with our records. We found that an FIR was registered against him at the GRP outpost in Kalyan last year. This helped us establish his identity.
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The body was identified as Deepak Dhoke, who was the resident of Ulhasnagar. The 25-year-old Dhoke was an unauthorised vendor who would sell water bottles at Kalyan railway station, said police.
"His killers Pentya Chittari, 38, Saikumar Kadamachi, 22, and Kishore Shettye 29 are also unauthorised vendors at the same railway station. They had a fight with Dhoke last year when a case was registered against the deceased," said Gite.
How was he killed?
During interrogation, the killers told Mokhada police that Dhoke had been harassing them and demanding money to continue selling eatables at Kalyan railway station. On the day he was killed, Dhoke had gone to Titwala to demand money from them, but the trio hatched a plan, made him drink alcohol and Chittari assaulted Dhoke with an iron pipe killing him on the spot.
Later, the killers bundled Dhoke's body in a car, drove it to Vaitarna river bridge via Kasara Ghat on Khodala road on February 3, dumped the body and fled from the spot," said Superintendent of Palghar Police Balasaheb Patil.
Meanwhile, the Mokhada police are yet to solve the headless body of a woman found early this month.
"We are working on the case, and soon it will be solved," Gite added.
