Seventeen years after an engineering pupil’s decapitated physique was present in a gunny bag close to Kovalam, a Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) court docket in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday discovered the second accused — Mohammad Ali (58) — responsible of the homicide.
First accused Durga Bahudur continues to be absconding and the central company made a number of efforts to nab him however to no avail, official aware about the event stated.
The quantum of punishment might be delivered on Wednesday.
Hailing from Andaman, Nicobar Islands, the deceased Syamol Mondal (21) was a final- yr pupil on the authorities engineering school within the state capital. He was reported lacking from his hostel on October 13, 2005 and after 11 days, his headless physique was recovered on October 24, 2005. His lacking physique components had been recovered later.
According to the prosecution, Mondal’s father, Basudev Mondal, a senior authorities official in Nicobar had been funding accused Ali’s enterprise for a few years. Later they fell out and he withdrew his funding. Nursing a grudge, Ali determined to take revenge on Mondal.
He got here to Thiruvananthapuram and hatched a conspiracy to dispose of his son. He sought the assistance of a history-sheeter Durga Bahudur, a resident of Nepal, to kill him. Prosecution stated that after the accused kidnapped Mondal, they made ransoms calls to his father searching for ₹20 lakh.
Every week after his abduction, the sufferer’s father got here to Kerala and the ransom quantity was fastened at ₹10 lakh.The accused requested him to come back to Chennai to handover the quantity. But his abductors escaped after they discovered {that a} police group was trailing the daddy. A couple of days later, Mondal’s physique was recovered which was later recognized by his father.
During investigation, police discovered that abductors had known as from Mondal’s cellphone after eradicating its SIM card. Later, the cellphone was recovered from a second-hand cellular store in Chennai and Ali was arrested from Nicobar. In 2008, the deceased’s father moved the excessive court docket which handed over the probe to the CBI. There had been 52 witnesses within the case, out of which 12 later turned hostile, stated an official aware about the matter. Ali had later confessed earlier than the police that Mondal was suffocated to loss of life on the second day after his abduction and he had deliberate to extract most cash from the daddy.
The case within the matter was registered beneath Sections 302 (punishment for homicide)of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sreekaryam police station in Thiruvananthapuram.
