The Ramamurthynagar police on Monday arrested a scrap shop owner and two of his associates on the charge of allegedly detaining a 35-year-old labourer illegally for every week, torturing him earlier than killing him, and dumping his physique in a storm-water drain.
The accused had even recorded the video of the torture on a cell phone which helped the police to zero in on them. The accused have been recognized as Prashanth, 34, who owned a gujari shop on Nagawara essential highway and his associates Sheikh Zabiulla, 26, and Shabaz, 28.
The deceased was recognized as Saifulla, a resident of D.J. Halli. He owned a horse carriage to transport supplies, and would usually go to Prashanth for work.
According to the police, Prashanth seen frequent thefts at his junk shop and stored a watch, earlier than allegedly catching Saifullah red-handed when he visited the shop at night time to steal the supplies.
The trio locked him in a room and tortured him for every week, on account of which Saifulla succumbed to his accidents, in accordance to the police.
According to the police, the trio transported the physique and dumped it in a storm-water drain close to Sadahalli bridge in Kasturinagar.
The subsequent day, the D.J. Halli police recovered the physique and registered a case of unnatural death. The police additionally shared the main points of the deceased with different stations and pasted posters to verify the id.
Meanwhile, relations went to Prashanth to inquire about Saifullah, however had been shooed away.
Later, the accused Zabiullah even joined the relations to search for Saifullah to not solely create an alibi but in addition to know their actions.
Unable to discover his whereabouts, the household approached the police station to file a lacking criticism on April 6. At the station, the deceased’s brother Fayazullah seen the poster of Saifullah and recognized his brother and shared the main points.
In his assertion to the police, he additionally suspected Prashanth’s function as Saifullah had mentioned with him about Prashanth’s harassment just a few days earlier than he went lacking.
Based on this, the police picked up Prashanth for questioning and later recovered the video of Saifullah being tortured from his telephone.
An in depth questioning led Prashanth to confess to the crime. Based on the confession, the police arrested Zabiullah and Shabaz, charging them with homicide and different expenses associated to the crime.
