Navi Mumbai Crime Branch Nabs Accused In Madhya Pradesh After 2 Months

Two months after a tuition teacher in Panvel was robbed and murdered, Unit II of Navi Mumbai Crime Branch has nabbed the accused from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. The accused has been identified as Sharad Ghanshyam Sahu (45), originally hailing from Assam. Sangeeta Rajendra Agwane (49), the victim, was going back home on October 7 after taking tuitions. A resident of Valap village in Panvel, she used to take tuitions in the same village at a shop space for students from class I to IX from 8 am to 10 am and 4pm to 7pm. Sandesh Rajendra Aghwane (32).

On the day of incident, her son Sandesh (32), who is also the complainant, had called her around 6.55pm and asked her to bring curd while she comes back from the classes. Since she did not reach home at the usual time, her son and husband started looking for her and found that she had left the tuitions and also purchased curd from a shop. They went towards the kachcha road that leads to their house from the shop and found her fallen motionless with all her belongings including, gold ornaments, cash and mobile phone, missing.

“There were no cctvs and no eye witnesses in the case. The body was found in a rural isolated area. With the help of technical analysis and some information that we procured through Google, we traced the accused. In the interrogation, he revealed that he used to be a tea shop from where the victim passed daily. He used to always see her and he was infatuated towards her. On the day of the incident while she was going, he went and held her hand which she got it released. The irked accused used a cloth that he used for fishing, and smothered her,” deputy commissioner of police (Crime branch) Amit Kale said.

According to police, with no clues from call data record, the police this time used google data to zero in the accused. At least 600 google profiles were scrutinized before finalizing on the accused. The google activity that is recorded in the data base of Google at the time of the incident, was requested by the police and they used the same to figure out the accused. Meanwhile, the police could also locate the phone of the deceased which was stolen. After keeping in unused for a month, it was being used again later which too helped the police.

“We arrested the accused on Saturday and he has been granted police custody,” assistant commissioner of police (crime branch), said. Senior police inspector Umesh Gavali from Unit II of Crime Branch said that the phone of the victim was found with the brother-in-law of the accused. “We have recovered some amount of gold from the accused. The further investigation is with Panvel police,” Gavali added.