Khar murder: Blood on Jogdhankar’s T-shirt matched with Jahanvi’s, says police

Three months after Jahanvi Kukreja was allegedly murdered during a New Yearrsquos Eve party at a Khar residential building police filed the charge sheet on Tuesday Prime accused Shree Jogdhankar along with coaccused Diya Padalkar killed the 19yearold woman and fled the spot stated the 250page charge sheetJahanvi with her mother Niddhi KukrejaThe blood sample collected from Jogdhankarrsquos Tshirt matched with that of the deceased said police Senior Inspector Gajanan Kabdule of Khar police station said they have dropped Sections 34 common intention and 109 punishment of abetment if the act abetted is committed in consequence of the Indian Penal CodeThe incident happened on the 14th floor of Bhagwanti Heights in Khar West while nearly 20 others were partying Police so far have CCTV camera footage from the society and statements of 12 people present at the party48 injuries on bodyAccording to the charge sheet ldquoThe accused dragged Kukreja by her hair from the fifth floor to the second floor After killing Kukreja both accused found fighting on the second floor near Kukrejarsquos body at 145 am Police found 48 injuries on Kukrejarsquos body Police also recovered earrings and the hair band of Kukreja and Padalkar from the staircase sicrdquoldquoPolice also found Kukrejarsquos and Padalkarrsquos blood from the bed sheet in the room The fight occurred on the fifth floor of the building on the staircase and the accused also threw Kukreja from the second floor sicrdquo it stated Police said there was a love angle in this case and that Kukreja was crying on the terrace while talking on the phoneBoth lied to doctorsldquoWe also recorded the statements of doctors from Sion hospital and Hinduja hospital where the accused went after the murder Jogdhankar visited Sion hospital and told the doctor that he fell on the road Padalkar who visited Hinduja hospital also claimed to have fallen down on the road They both gave false information to doctorsrdquo police addedJogdhankar lawyer Mahesh Vaswani told midday ldquoPolice have failed to properly investigate the assault and murderous injuries suffered by my client Jogdhankar and have also not filed all medical papers with the charge sheet It also seems that police have been misled in the investigation All witnessesrsquo statements are contradictory and itrsquos clear police made some mistake in filing the charge sheet against JogdhankarrdquoldquoWe have faith in our judiciary and we will get justicerdquo said Niddhi Kukreja Jahanvirsquos mother ldquoWe have applied for a certified copy of the charge sheetrdquo said Advocate Trivankumar Karnani appearing for the victimrsquos family