Mumbai, June 04: Investigating a murder, CB sleuths stumble upon evidence related to an old kidnapping case; realise kidnapped woman had actually eloped, end up solving that case instead
The Mumbai Crime Branch was trying to solve an Aarey Colony murder case when it stumbled upon evidence relating to an old unsolved kidnapping case and ended up solving that instead.
Members of Unit 12 of the Crime Branch were investigating a case where the body of an unidentified woman was found at Aarey Milk Colony on April 1 this year. After running a check on their records, they found that the photograph of the slain woman matched that of a missing woman, Sonia (21), in the same jurisdiction.
When the sleuths visited Sonia’s residence at Khar (East), they found that her husband, Gagandeep Bangad, who had lodged a complaint of her being kidnapped by three unidentified people near Bandra (East), had gone underground. The complaint was lodged at Nirmal Nagar police station in Khar on March 3.
On rummaging through the couple’s belongings they found some email addresses in a file.
“Getting no further leads, we decided to check the kidnapped woman’s email and chat records and found that she had chatted with a person in Vadodara. We immediately dispatched a team there,” said Police Inspector Subhash Sawant of Crime Branch unit 12.
After checking the chat records, the Crime Branch realised that Sonia was not kidnapped, but had eloped with her paramour. They also found out that Sonia’s husband, a visa consultant from Jalandhar, had left for Singapore a day after filing the complaint.
The team tracked Sonia down, brought her to Mumbai and handed her over to the Nirmal Nagar police.
However, the original murder case they had set out to solve still remains unsolved.
–Agencies–