Witness turns out to be killer, Mumbai cops crack murder case within 48 hours

The Nizampur police investigating the murder of an unidentified person managed to identify and crack the case within 48 hours While the investigation was on a person offered to help the cops in the probe However the details shared by him made the police suspicious leading to the arrest of three people involved in the murderOn January 20 in the morning hours Nizampura police were alerted about a bloodsoaked white gunny bag lying below Rupala Bridge Bhiwandi Police rushed to the spot and found a body of a man inside it The preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased was badly beaten as the body had marks on the head neck and chest Police also found a torn medical prescription and a headphone in the pocket However there was no mobile phonePolice identify the bodyAssistant police commissioner Prashant Dhole senior inspector Naresh Pawar were directed to form three teams led by inspector Deep Bane ldquoThe clothes of the dead body had red and golden colour stains which are used in a pearl workshop The prescription found in the pocket was also a clue We started working on thatrdquo inspector Deep Bane saidldquoOfficers were sent to find the doctor whose name was mentioned in the prescription In the meantime another team visited more than 100 pearl workshops questioning whether any employee remained absentrdquo he added A team of officers tracked the doctor in Bhiwandi through a pharmacist The doctor however told the police that he sees more than 100 patients per day and it was hard for him to give information about this particular patient as the prescription was tornACP Dhole received information that a woman was inquiring about her husband working in a pearl workshop The woman was traced however she did not recognize the body Later her elder son had a closer look and identified the body by a birthmark on his cheek and locket taavij The victim was then identified as Arman Sher Ali Shah During a background investigation of the family the police learned that Shah never left his wife aloneA lsquowitnessrsquo tries to derail probeCops started technical analysis of the victimrsquos call records In the meantime a person named Mohammed Salman approached cops and informed them that he had witnessed the murder and was willing to share details He showed the police a secluded place where he had lsquoseenrsquo the murder and described the accused While cops were trying to make sketches of suspects another team working on technical details found a suspected mobile number ldquoWhen the number was shared with us it was of Salman We took him into custody On interrogation he confessed to the crime Salman revealed that he was told by the main accused to divert investigation till they run away to Uttar Pradesh UPrdquo added inspector BaneAffair behind murderShah a resident of UP worked in a pearl workshop where he met Tasleem Halim Ansari 30 Tasleem befriended him and started visiting his home He had an affair with his wife When Shah got to know this he scolded his wife and warned her not to venture out without him Tasleem then decided to kill him He told his friends Mohammed Salman Sheikh 27 and Bilal Saeed Ansari 26 about the planOn January 19 Salman called Shah to meet Tasleem to settle the matter forever When Shah showed up he was mercilessly beaten When he didnrsquot die they hit him with an iron rod and later strangulated his neck till death The accused then packed the body inside a gunny bag and dumped it below the bridge When the accused heard that the cops had found the body Tasleem told Salman to meet the officers and divert the investigation by sharing wrong information19 JanThe day the victim Arman Sher Ali Shah was murdered