09 January,2011 07:26 AM IST | | Sayed Roshan
On January 6, four minors were arrested for murdering their friend and disposing his body in the Gorai creek. In 2009, a chilling reminder of another minor murder dating back to 2008 when the body was thrown into a Bandra nulla
On December 13, 2010 a group of four minors and a 19 year-oldu00a0 from Bundar Pakhadi, at Charkop in Kandivli brutally killed their friend Pintoo Desai, disposing his body in the Gorai creek. The case was hauntingly similar to the brutal murder of a minor named Mukim Sheikh on February 13, 2009. Sheikh's body was then disposed in a nulla near Bandra East and was found later near Kalina.
Four minors were arrested on January 6 this year in the Desai Gorai murder case. The accused have told the police in their statement, "We had gone for a picnic in Gorai, where we asked Desai to bring cigarettes as we were busy roasting chicken. Pintoo refused and we started fighting." The fight turned ugly and Desai became unconscious after they beat her. The group took him near the Gorai creek, tied him to a stone using a rope.
When Desai gained consciousness, they smashed his head with a stone. When Desai began bleeding profusely in the head and eventually died, the group threw his body into the creek.
How police trace the accused
Desai was murdered on December 13, but the cops arrested the accused only on January 6. Desai's sister Pinku, aged 20, led cops to the accused when she met the cops who were investigating residents in her area, Bundar Pakhadi. Pinku recognised her brother from the photograph that the cops carried along during investigation. A shocked Pinku informed the cops that her deceased brother had gone on a picnic with his five school friends in Gorai.
Desai's decomposed body was found at the Gorai creek on December 16. Residents in the area saw a body on the bank of the creek and immediately informed the police. The police then carried out a post mortem. Reports revealed that Desai was kicked, punched and also hit by a stone on his head. Rope marks were also found around his neck.
Police inspector Bharat Kumbhar of MHB police station, Borivali said, "It was confirmed that it was a murder. It was only after his sister informed us that he was missing after partying with his friends, that we got the clue. After the interrogation of the children that they confessed to the crime." Since the accused are minors, their names have not been disclosed by the police.
The four minors have been sent to the Dongri remand home, while a major is said to be behind the lock up at Borivali.
