Kakkanad: Accused K.K. reiterated that no one else was involved in the murder of Sajeev Krishna, a native of Ambalapadi, Vandoor, Malappuram, at Oxonia flat in Edchira. Arshad. Arshad’s statement is that when he killed Sajeev Krishna at around 3:30 am on the day of the incident, he was half asleep. Arshad Sajeev was stabbed to death more than 30 times on the 16th floor of Oxonia Flats. Arshad tells the police regarding the incident:
Sajeev owed money to Arshad in connection with the drug trade. Sajeev did not give in despite asking for money several times. Finally, he challenged him to buy if he might. This is the provocation. Sajeev stabbed Krishna several times with the knife in the room. He was stabbed wrongly to prevent a counter attack from a healthier than him. Arshad also said that his friend Ashwant, who was arrested with him in Manjeswaram, is innocent.
The investigation team has recovered the phone sold by accused Arshad two weeks before the murder of Sajeev Krishna. The phone was sold at a shop in Edchira.
However, there is a mystery in Arshad’s statement that he sold the phone due to financial difficulties. The information on the phone will be collected with the help of cyber cell. The investigation team is confident that this will enable them to understand the relationship of the accused with drug rings. The police also reached the flat where the murder took place with the accused yesterday.
Perfume was sprayed inside the room
Kakkanad: After brutally stabbing Sajeev Krishna to death, the accused who wiped all the blood in the room also sprayed perfume in the room. Washed with lotion several times to get rid of the strong smell of blood. The accused bought broom, tile cleaner and Dettol from a supermarket in Edachira and kept Sajeev Krishna’s dead body wrapped in a mattress and kept it in the room. His statement is that even following killing Sajeev Krishna, he rested in the same room.