Indian police Murder Many people were arrested on the charge of The police found tattoos on the dead man’s body with the names of people he believed wanted to harm him.
This situation is strikingly similar to the story of Christopher Nolan’s film Memento.
A person named Guru Waghmare around three o’clock in the morning on Wednesday India Center of economic activity Mumbai He was killed in a bath in Worli area.
According to a report by the Indian newspaper Hindustan Times, the Worli police said that Waghmare was well-known as an informer in the police.
However, several cases were registered against him under the charges of extortion, rape and sexual exploitation.
According to local media, Waghmare frequented a spa called Soft Touch and took some of the spa staff to a restaurant for his birthday.
After dinner, everyone returned to the spa and reportedly planned to spend the night there.
Three male staff members stepped out around 2:30 am and two unknown persons entered the spa and fatally stabbed Waghmare several times, police said.
According to the newspaper The Indian Express, a senior police officer said that the incident took place at midnight.
During the post-mortem, the police found the names of 22 people possibly responsible for harming the deceased in the form of tattoos on the body’s thigh.
This situation is similar to the story of Nolan’s psychological film Memento released in 2000. In the film, Leonard Shelby (played by Guy Pearce) is a man with short-term memory loss who uses hallucinations, writings and tattoos to find his wife’s killer.
The owner of the spa in which the murder took place, Santosh Shrikar, along with another spa owner, Mohammad Feroz Ansari, were arrested.
This section contains related reference points (Related Nodes field).
A senior police officer told The Indian Express that RTI (Right to Information Movement) activists Guru Waghmare used to threaten and extort money from spa owners in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane. Similarly, they also harassed spa owners in neighboring states, leading to FIRs and 22 cases requiring warrants for their arrest.
Waghmare allegedly extorted extortion from Shrikar while Ansari’s spa was closed after a raid in 2023.
Police said that Ansari had refused to give money to Waghmare after which he lodged a complaint with the police following which the raid was conducted.
Police say the two spa owners decided to work together and allegedly hired a hitman named Saqib from the Indian capital, Delhi, and offered him 400,000 Indian rupees (£3,712) for the murder.
CCTV footage from the spa as well as the restaurant helped police trace the events.
Police found two men who tried to hide their identities by wearing raincoats.
The two men followed Waghmare from the restaurant to the bar, but were also seen stopping to buy something from a small shop nearby.
Investigation revealed that the payment was made to the hitman through UPI (Instant Payment System) and the account linked to the payment belonged to Ansari. Police managed to reach Ansari’s house where he allegedly confessed to the crime and named his accomplices.
Saqib, who left the city by train on the night of the murder, was arrested at a station in Kota, a city in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. Along with them, two other persons have also been arrested on suspicion.
#India #Accused #murder #arrested #tattoos #body
2024-07-27 14:01:53
