In Nadiad, man and his wife kill neighbour for gold chain: Cops

Police said that the accused tried to mislead the officials during the investigation, and claimed that they were travelling — inspired by the crippled successful Drishyam — astatine the clip of the incident. They showed officials autobus tickets to backmost up their claim, and besides “recorded mendacious statements” to evade arrests but were yet caught owed to conflicting versions and method evidence, including a CCTV footage wherever they could beryllium allegedly seen travelling connected their two-wheeler with the assemblage of the unfortunate successful a jute sack to the Mahi Canal.

As per the details received from police, Saumiya had gone “missing” from her location connected September 28. A missing persons ailment was filed astatine Nadiad Town constabulary presumption by her husband, Chidambaram Kalla, a vas vendor, who spent the time travelling to antithetic towns and villages to merchantability his ware.

Police said that Saumiya’s assemblage was recovered from the Mahi Canal connected September 30. The superior origin of the decease successful the post-mortem was said to beryllium “drowning”. However, the constabulary could not statesman signaling statements oregon probe deeper into the lawsuit arsenic her hubby had departed for their autochthonal colony successful Tamil Nadu for her last rites. It was aft Kalla returned to Nadiad this week that the constabulary began signaling statements and suspected a foul play.

Police recovered that Saumiya, among each the neighbours, lone visited the location of the accused successful the neighbourhood arsenic they “struck conversations” implicit nutrient since the mates ran a tiffin work concern that had tally into hard times.

Inspector JH Vaghela of Nadiad agrarian told The Indian Express that connected the time they decided to termination their neighbour, the mates had summoned Saumiya to their location astatine astir 7.30 pm.

“The accused knew that the pistillate was unsocial astatine location until her hubby returned late. On that day, they called her to their location connected the pretext of discussing a look and portion she was successful the kitchen, they smothered her and past deed her with a blunt entity connected her head,” helium said.