Mangalore: Notorious Criminal Pandu Pai Murdered in City Limits
 
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network- Mangalore (RS/SP)

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Mangalore, May 12: A criminal, who was involved with several criminal cases in the city and outside, named Panduranga Pai alias Pandu Pai, was found murdered near the Mangalore Junction  railway station in  Kankanady, on the morning of Tuesday, May 12.
 
Panduranga Pai is a resident of Konchady in the city. Because of several cases registered against him, the policemen had been looking out for him. As such, he had not been living in the city and was almost absconding since a few years.   

 
He was  involved in a number of criminal  cases including those relating to  murder and Hafta cases. He was also  wanted by the Gujarat policemen in relation with a murder case and  by the Mumbai  police in connection with a Hafta case. Earlier, he was in Mumbai, where he worked in a  hotel and also got involved with criminal activities.

His body was found on Tuesday morning. It is suspected, he was done to death the previous night.  His killers murdered him by slitting his neck with a knife. 

 
In the city, he was  involved with three murder cases and  also  had some cases pending against him in some of the police  stations  in Udupi  district. He also was imprisoned  for a few years in another case.
 
The policemen with the help of sniffer dogs, inspected the spot of murder immediately after they came to know of the incident. Prima facie, it looks as if he had been murdered elsewhere and that the body had been brought here in a vehicle and dropped at the above site
 
There is also a wound in the abdomen portion of the body,  which is also believed to have been caused by a knife that was used to kill him. 
 
A white shirt was seen lying about 200 metres away from the spot where the body was found. It is said, the murderers threw this shirt there, while going back after abandoning Pai’s body.
 
The policemen who searched the pants and the shirt of Pai did not find anything in them. The body has since been shifted to the mortuary of Wenlock Hospital in the city. 

It is said, that  Panduranga Pai had kept himself away  from criminal  activities since some time and had got involved with some other business.          
 
Mangalore rural station policemen are involved with the investigation.  

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