01st August 2014
Tattoos on a man’s charred body led to the arrest of his alleged murderers, as they had left behind no evidence at the scene of crime which was committed seven months ago.
The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) proved to be a successful tool in cracking the case.
The seven month-long investigation into the murder of the unidentified man in Kurusilapet police station came to an end on Wednesday after the police made an extra-judicial arrest of a 20-year-old youth Prabakaran of Perumapet village in Tirupattur taluk.
Apprehending arrest, the youth surrendered before Tirupattur Tahsildar and confessed to murdering the 24-year-old habitual offender Mohammed Riyas, a resident of Rajakadai in Tiruvottiyur, Chennai.
He also revealed that Riyas’s partner-in-crime Imran Sheriff(25) had hatched the murder plot. He was killed in a road accident in Namakkal within three weeks after they murdered Riyas.
The murder of an unidentified man was reported on January 1 and the body was found in the forest area near Jalagambarai Falls. “There were stab and cut injuries on the chest and throat. The murderers burnt the victim’s face to conceal his identity. So, we preserved the bones for a DNA test,” Superintendent of Police of Vellore P Vijaya Kumar told Express.
The tattoos of two names- A Sugunya and A Swetha- on the chest and hand of the deceased were uploaded onto the CCTNS. But, there were not matching with man-missing cases reported till then.
The investigation team, using the tailor’s tag on the shirt of the deceased, traced and located the tailor at Ennore near Chennai. However, it was not helpful to the investigations. The voters’ list was also checked for names of Sugunya and Swetha. “A few names cropped up. But none of their relatives went missing,” said the SP.
A week ago, the State Crime Record Bureau alerted the Vellore police that one Sugunya had filed a man-missing case of her husband in Tiruvottiyur Police Station on July 12. The identification marks given by her were matching with the data uploaded onto the CCTNS by Vellore police. The police also said Riyas and his associate Sheriff of Namakkal were involved in several chain-snatching cases.
The Vellore police immediately rushed to Chennai and inquired Sugunya. “She said her husband Riyas was last seen on December 29 last year. His phone was also switched off since then. He left the house saying that he was going to meet Sheriff,” said Inspector I Gopalakrishnan, who is the investigation officer of the case.
Thinking that her husband had been arrested in the chain-snatching cases, she and her family members did not approach the police. The investigation again hit a road-block when the police learnt that Sheriff was killed in a road accident on January 16 in Namakkal. After checking the call logs of Sheriff and Riyas, the police launched a search for Prabakaran. “Finally, he surrendered fearing police arrest,” said the IO.
On interrogation, he disclosed that Sheriff and Riyas had a dispute over sharing of around 20 sovereigns of jewels they had as spoils. “Sheriff decided to murder Riyas after he demanded major share of the jewels. So, he decided to put an end to Riyas. He plotted the murder and took him to Jalagambarai under the pretext of celebrating New Year. After giving him excess liquor, the two murdered him and burnt his face pouring petrol,” said the official.
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