Mangalore: Mistaken Identity costs Lancy D'Souza his life.
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (KD/NR)
Pics: Spoorthy Ullal
Mangalore, Mar 9: In connection with the murder of Tokkottu rickshaw driver Lancy D’Souza, four persons have been arrested by the police here on Saturday March 9.
The arrested has been identified as Hasainar (24), Mohammed Sadik (19), residents of Mastikatte Sundaribhag in Ullal, Imran (19) resident of Druga road in Ullal and Sadik (19) a resident of Saiyad Madani colony.
Imran, Hussianar, Chota Sadik, Mohd Sadik
It is believed by police sources that they had taken Lancy ostensively for the purpose of hiring the rickshaw on March 4 night and later killed him at a isolated area at Gandi in Sevanthi Gudda.
Earlier the task of apprehending the killers was taken up by the crime division constable P Jaganath, who after due investigation gave information about the culprits to the circle inspector Jayanth V Shetty, who was in-charge of the case.
Police then succeeded in nabbing the four culprits with this information. The team comprising of Jayanth Shetty, P S I Shiv Prakash, S P special squad of investigation arrested the culprits.
According to the police, this was clearly a case of mistaken identity. The culprits had made a plan to kill someone else but by mistake they killed Lancy D’Souza. Their plan was to kill a person who was having a affair with a girl which they did not like.
However it is not yet known whom they had planned to kill. Police sources inform that the culprits who managed to escape have a criminal background, one among whom has been released from jail recently.
Police western range I G P A M Prasad has announced rewards for persons coming forward with information on the culprits in this case.