Navi Mumbai man held for stealing police probe equipment, deleting data from it

An 22yearold Navi Mumbai man was arrested on Thursday in Maharashtras Navi Mumbai township for allegedly stealing a police kit used in crime investigation and deleting data from it an official said reported news agency PTIThe police had detained the accused and a juvenile on May 17 in another case after they fought on a road Koparkhairne police stations senior inspector Audhumbar Patil said reported PTIDuring their questioning at an interrogation room in the police station the Navi Mumbai man allegedly stole the yatharta kit used during probe into a crime and fled He later deleted all data from the probe kit the official said reported PTIThe entire data of the collection of evidence pertaining to crimes was lost he saidThe man was arrested on Thursday in Koparkhairne area and booked under Indian Penal Code sections 380 theft and 201 causing disappearance of evidence of offence the official said reported PTIThe accused is a habitual offender involved in housebreaking thefts the police addedIn another case police have arrested a man and detained two girls for allegedly killing a 52yearold Mauritian national on a hill in Navi Mumbais Belapur area an official said on Wednesday reported PTIThe victim whom the accused had befriended had been staying in Belapur with his son since the past few months and was in search of a job he said reported PTIOn May 18 the body of an unidentified man was found on the Parsik hill in Belapur After that the police registered a case of murder and launched a probe The police also circulated the picture of the victim over social media following which his identity was established senior inspector Giridhar Gore of the CBD police station said reported PTIThe victim was identified as Navikumar Gurudatta Babu a Mauritian national As per the investigation he came to India eight months back and while he was hunting for a job in a hotel he met the three accused persons and befriended them he said reported PTIThe victim earlier worked as a manager with a renowned hotel in Mauritius the official saidDuring the probe the police received a tipoff that the accused was seen with another man and two girls in the locality on the day of his murder he saidThe police then detained a man identified as Sayyed Mustakin Khan During his interrogation the police got the information that the victim had gone to Parsik Hill in Belapur along with Khan and the two girls on May 17 and all of them consumed liquor together which they frequently did the police official said reported PTIDuring the probe the police found that the victim teased one of the girls following which there was an altercation between the victim and three others who smashed the victim to death and fled the scene he said reported PTIThe police recovered two bloodstained scarves of the girls from the spot which indicated the involvement of the two girls he said reported PTIA local court has remanded Khan in police custody till May 23 while the two girls have been sent to the remand homeWith inputs from PTI