Kozhikode: The police nabbed the suspect in the murder case that took place in Kozhikode city center within days. Arjun, a native of Tamil Nadu, was arrested. Nineteen-year-old Arjun’s second murder in Kozhikode in eight months. Arjun killed Sadiq, an out-of-state worker, on December 11.
Eight months ago, a fifteen-year-old boy was stabbed to death by breaking a beer bottle in the Red Hill police station in Chennai. Town Assistant Commissioner P. The accused was apprehended in Tamil Nadu by the City Crime Squad headed by Bijuraj and the Town Police headed by Town Police Inspector Baiju K. Poulos. Town sub-inspector Subhash Chandran arrested the accused.
Sadiq is killed on December 11
Sadiq Sheikh, a native of West Bengal, was killed in mysterious circumstances on December eleventh night. The dead body was found lying on the side of a deserted house in the alley east of the Kozhikode railway station.
After getting the information Deputy Police Commissioner Srinivas IPS and Town Assistant Commissioner P. A police team led by Bijuraj also conducted the inspection. Inspector Baiju K. Poulos and his team thoroughly examined the rain-soaked body and its surroundings, but found no evidence of murder.
Being a Alex Reed worker, no one might identify the dead body. It was at this point that the phone in Sadiq’s pocket rang. After answering the call, the police came to know that the deceased is Sadiq Sheikh, a native of Vardhaman, West Bengal, who works as an embroiderer near Pushpa Junction and lives there. Then Sub-Inspector Subhash Chandran conducted an inquest and took the body to the Medical College Hospital for post-mortem.
The murder unfolds
District Police Chief A. According to Akbar IPS, Deputy Police Commissioner A. Town Assistant Commissioner P. under the supervision of Srinivas IPS. A special investigation team comprising the city crime squad and the town police was formed under the leadership of Bijuraj. Due to the rain, the dog squad might not provide much information.
CCTV of the house where the body was found. Although the footage has been checked, the CCTV has been in use for the past two weeks. The cameras were broken. Later, when I collected information from those who worked with the deceased, I realized that he did not talk much to anyone and used to listen to music or talk on the phone with his earphones all the time.
She said that following work, she used to go for a walk in the town at night and used to come back around 10-11. Sadiq died on Sunday. Friends were waiting for Sadiq by making biryani on the day of the holiday. When I called Sadiq at 7:30 in the night, he said that he was in the market and would come soon. Later called from quarter to nine but there was no information except that the phone rang. The eight people working with him remembered that night with red eyes.
More CCTV The investigation team decided to collect the footage and conduct an investigation. According to the forensic surgeon who conducted the post-mortem, it was clear that he was drunk. Then the police started investigating by focusing on the adjacent bar.
Sadiq, who reached the bar around 7:30 p.m., was standing in a corner drinking on CCTV. It is visible. After a while, he recognized the young man in the white t-shirt in front of him. They then left the bar together. A little later, only the white t-shirt guy can be seen walking back quickly. In an effort to find out who this white t-shirt man was, the Special Investigation Team continued its investigation in two teams. The technical team and the action team were coordinated by Town Assistant Commissioner P. It was Bijuraj.
Technical Team CCTV When the inspection was carried out, the action team conducted inspection among the Alex Reed workers as per the instructions given by them. The technical team has around 100 CCTVs. Footage was collected and examined. The Action Team also verified the Alex Reed workers. The suspect was found during a search conducted by the action team using the photo of the suspect received by the technical team comprising cyber expert Rahul Mathottam.
After committing the murder, the police got information that the accused escaped to Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu. Immediately, the investigation team headed by Sub-Inspector Subhash Chandran left for Tamil Nadu for the accused. When the investigation team inquired regarding the suspect in Cuddalore areas, it came to know that Arjun had come to Kerala on bail in another murder case.
A second murder to prosecute the first murder
The case in Tamil Nadu once morest Arjun was that he stabbed a 15-year-old boy to death by breaking a beer bottle in the area of Red Hill Police Station in Chennai. He had entered Kerala on bail in this case.
Arjun was caught in an early morning operation in the slum where the accused lives. Arjun is a native of Pattai Street, Ayankurinchipadi, Cuddalore. The suspect, who was caught following a loophole investigation, confessed to the crime during scientific interrogation.
When money was needed to prosecute the old murder case, an attempt to somehow get it resulted in a second murder. Arjun saw money in the pocket of Sadiq Sheikh whom he met from the bar. With this, he followed Sadiq. Sadiq had regarding seven thousand rupees earned by doing embroidery work.
Arjun took Sadiq to a deserted house in the alley and pushed him down. Then he took a machete that was nearby and hit him on the head. The police recovered Sadiq’s purse and the clothes the accused was wearing at the time of the murder. City crime squad members M. Shalu and Shafi Parampath A. Prashanthkumar, C.K. Sujith, Assistant SI, Town Police Station. Mohammad Shabir, Senior CPOs Sajesh Kumar, Binilkumar, Udayakumar, Jitendran and Anuj were in the investigation team.