Dharwad: In a joint operation Dharwad district police and Hubballi-Dharwad Police have cracked two instances of murders and arrested six individuals who have been allegedly concerned in each the instances.
Dharwad SP Lokesh Jagalasar stated on Tuesday that the half burnt our bodies of a 59-year-old girl and 74-year-old girl have been discovered on Might 11 and July 2 close to Kadanakoppa and Tambur Cross in Kalghatagi police limits respectively. Each the our bodies had harm marks and it was clear that the ladies have been murdered.
Each have been related instances
Whereas police couldn’t establish the primary sufferer, they might establish the second sufferer as Indirabai Pawar, a resident of Ishwar Nagar close to Hubballi which comes below Hubballi-Dharwad Police Commissionerate.
Discovering similarity in each the instances, police suspected that each the ladies may have been murdered by the identical individuals.
A joint police workforce which started investigation searched CCTV footage, interrogated a number of folks and checked name particulars of a number of folks. Based mostly on CCTV footage, they zeroed in on Devaraj Mogaler, a resident of Ishwar Nagar who was working as a coolie.
His interrogation revealed that he together with 5 others – Kalappa Rogannavar, Basavaraj Walad, Md Rafi Badiger, Shivanand Kenchannavar (all from Adargunchi) and Gangappa Marathangi of Rottigawad – who have been additionally working as each day wage labourers had hatched a plan to kill lonely girl and take away her ornaments.
They tracked the actions of a girl – who was later recognized as Mahadevi Neelannavar, staying alone at Ishwar Nagar- and entered her home asking for water. When she went inside to get water, the 5 accused attacked her, strangled her after which packed her physique in a gunny bag and shifted it in a Maruti Omni to a subject close to Kadanakoppa and tried to burn it. They fled with the gold ornaments and different jewelry which she was sporting.
First kill triggers second
Buoyed by the success within the first case, they set out on the second enterprise. On July 2, they noticed a 74-year-old girl who was grazing cattle in a park and assaulted her. When she was unconscious, they packed her within the Omni and took her to the forest close to Tambur Cross. On the best way, that they had assaulted her fatally. They dumped the physique within the forest and tried to burn it.
SP Lokesh stated the arrest of the 5 had additionally resulted within the restoration of the jewelry that they had snatched from the victims.
IGP (Northern Vary) Satishkumar has congratulated the SP, his workforce and the Hubballi-Dharwad Police for cracking the case.
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