Mangalore: After the bodies of Fahim (25) from Kozhikode and Nafir (24) of Thalassery , two alleged gold smugglers from Kerala were found at their burial site, a deserted spot, 5 km from the main road at Kundangui, Kasargod City, the police commissioner, R Hitendra on Monday July 7 elaborated on the double murder case at a press meet. He said that that Mohammed Mahajir Sanaf, resident of Cherkala Badiadka, Kasargod, Mohammed Irshad and Mohammed Safwan, residents of Anangoor have been arrested. He said that “the deceased were agents for smuggling gold from the Gulf into the country. They had smuggled in 3 kg of gold recently, but instead of giving it to the person it was meant for, they sold 2.5 kg of it. The remaining 0.5 kg of gold has been recovered by the police”.
Nafir and Fahim had rented a house at Attavar, belonging to a certain Nafees around 20 days back, and on July 1 they were stabbed to death at the lodge itself. The bodies were shifted the next day and found on July 6th. The role of the house owner in the case is under investigation, Hitendra said.
Hitendra said “the people in Attavar vicinity informed the police about blood stains found near the rented house, after which one of the police informers kept a close watch. He noticed a Renault Duster vehicle moving suspiciously around the area, with blood stains on its body. The CCB police then intercepted the vehicle near a garage at Mahakali Padpu and the accused were arrested.”
He further elaborated on the investigation thus, “During interrogation, it came to light that the two bodies were tied in gunny bags and buried in a 10 cents land belonging to Safwan at Bedagam village in Kasargod. The accused were taken to the spot and the bodies were retrieved and sent to post-mortem”
The police have seized the weapon and car used in committing the crime, apart from gold and other items.
When asked if the accused have any underworld connection, Hitendra said they have no such links in Karnataka, but investigation on this front is going in others states like Kerala and Goa.
The operation was conducted on the direction of R Hitendra, under the guidance of under the guidance of DCP (law and order) and Dr Jagadish, DCP (crime) Vishnuvardhan, and led by CCB inspector Valentine D’Souza and sub-divisional ACP of Mangalore South Pawan Nejjoor. Mangalore south inspector Dinkar Shetty, police personnel Shashidhar Shetty, Ganesh M P, Ganesh Kalladka, Venugopal, Chandrashekar, Dinesh Bekal, Rajendra Prasad, Sudhir Shetty, Abdul Jabbar, Mani M N and Tejakumar were part of the police team.
The incident came to light only on Sunday July 6. A day after the murder, the accused buried the bodies at a deserted spot, 5 km from the main road at Kundangui, Kasargod.
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