I killed her and dumped the body near Bandstand, says accused

Mithu Singh who was arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a thirdyear MBBS student confessed to killing her and dumping her body near Bandra Bandstand He also told the cops that his friend Abdul Jabbar Ansari another arrested accused in the case helped him commit the crime Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 09 officers took both the accused to Bandstand on Thursday and recreated the scene Cops said they have some leads about the body but did not reveal any further details They said they will add charges of murder to the case soonCrime Branch team and forensic experts with Mithu Singh at Bandstand where he took a photo with SaneBased on Singhrsquos confession Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 09 officers took him to the scene of crime on Thursday said an officer privy to the investigation A team of 20 officers along with Deputy Commissioner of Police Detection 1 Krishna Kant Upadhyay who has been monitoring the case closely reached Bandra Bandstand at 1230 pm Forensic experts and cops searched Singhrsquos house and then he was taken to the rocks where he had taken a photo with the deceased at 3 am on November 29 2021 Sources claimed that Singh has narrated the sequence of the events of that night including how he killed the woman The cops suspect that the body is buried or dumped somewhere at Bandstand as the location of both the accused on the day of the incident was there as per technical evidenceAlso Read Mumbai Crime branch suspects rape in MBBS student kidnapping caseSingh was grilled for more than two hours and then taken back to the Unit 09 office in Bandra Hours later the second accused Ansari was taken to his house which is less than a 100 metres from the crime scene The officers searched his house for more than one hour He was taken to the terrace of his house and questionedAbdul Ansari too was brought to BandstandCrime Branch officers have also made panchnama at the spot and the houses of both the accused An officer said ldquoWe cannot reveal the details at this stage as we are collecting evidence to connect the dots However we are now sure that the woman was murdered We will soon invoke Sections 302 murder and 201 destruction of evidence of the Indian Penal Code in the caserdquoMeanwhile sources told midday that some construction took place at Ansarirsquos house a year and a half ago which is close to the time of the incident However his family members said there has not been any construction work at the house for the past five yearslsquoDumped body in searsquoCrime Branch officers have confirmed that the accused confessed to dumping the womanrsquos body in the sea The accused has told police that on January 9 2016 three women were swept away at Bandstand At the time one Ramesh had jumped in and rescued two of them but when he tried to save the third woman he too died While Rameshrsquos body was found the next day in Mahim the womanrsquos body was not foundCrime Branch officers at the terrace of another accused Abdul Jabbar Ansarirsquos residence on ThursdayldquoWe have spoken to the family of the woman who died in 2016 and they confirmed the factrdquo an officer said The officers said that Singh revealed this and said that since he was aware of the spot he used the same location to dump the MBBS studentrsquos body after killing her Cops are still grilling him about the possible motive and prima facie they suspect that the woman was raped and then killed by Singh and his friend Ansari helped him dump her bodyldquoWe have called divers from the Indian Navy to search for the body in the sea We couldnrsquot do that on Thursday because of the high tide but will launch a search operation on Friday after speaking to the weather departmentrdquo an officer addedNov 29Day in 2021 when the woman went missing