Lord Hanuman tattoo on chopped arm helps police identify murder victim; 1 held

Days after the body parts of an unidentified man were found dumped in Navi Mumbai police have identified the victim with the help of a tattoo on his chopped arm and also arrested the accused for the murder a senior official said on ThursdayThe accused Sumitkumar Harishkumar Chouhan 27 had brutally killed Ravindra Ramesh Mandotiya 30 and chopped his body parts before dumping them a few days back he saidAddressing a press conference Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Bipin Kumar Singh said that on September 12 different body parts including two arms and legs were found packed in a plastic bag and dumped in Navi Mumbais Vashi APMC areaHowever other parts of the body including the head were missing The police registered a case under IPC sections 302 murder and 201 causing disappearance of evidence at the APMC police station he saidThe police did not have much material to identify the victim except the name Ravindra and Lord Hanumans image tattooed on one of the chopped arms It was a challenging case Several police teams were formed to identify the victim to trace the accused and also find out the remaining body parts Singh saidAlso Read Body parts of man found in Navi Mumbai murder probe onThe teams were sent to Thane Raigad Mumbai and Navi Mumbai to probe the case Details of 100 missing persons reported under the Navi Mumbai police commissionerate were analysed he addedDuring the probe the police came to know that one Ravindra Mandotiya a sweeper has gone missing from his house and a complaint had been registered in this regard at Koparkhairne police station His family members were called to identify the victim and the chopped arm with the tattoo was shown to them They confirmed that the body parts were that of Mandotiya he addedThereafter the police worked on several leads and went through the CCTV footage among other things and nabbed Chouhan the commissioner saidDuring his interrogation Chouhan told the police there was a monetary dispute between him and the victim As part of his plan to eliminate Mandotiya Chouhan slit his throat on September 9 and later cut his body into several pieces He packed these parts in a plastic bag and dumped in the APMC area while head and some other parts were buried in Mahape area another police official saidPolice later recovered the remaining body partsThe police official said that the accused who was arrested on September 14 was produced before a local court which remanded him into police custody till September 22Assistant Commissioner of Police Vashi division Vinayak Vast told reporters that the police were trying to find out if any more persons were involved in this crimeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever