Silvester D’Souza
Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (EP)
Kundapur, Jul 14: Byndoor station police who investigated the case where a man charred to death was found inside a burnt car at Henuberu, arrested four accused including a woman and produced them in the court. They have been subjected to police custody till July 18.
The chassis of the car was examined by forensic experts and the owner of the car was found out. He is identified as Sadananda Sherigar (54), a resident of Mala, Karkala. It is established by them that he set fire to the vehicle and killed Karkal based mason Ananda Devadiga (55). Police arrested Sadananda Sherigar and Shilpa (34), Satish R Devadiga (40) and Nithin alias Nithyanand Devadiga (40), both residents of Karkala, who allegedly helped in the crime.
The accused
Ananda Devadiga
Sadananda Sherigar, a surveyor had planned to kill somebody else by setting fire to the car and a person in it in order to appear to look like that he himself died in order to cover his financial frauds. He took the help of Shilpa, who was close to him and escorted her male friend, a mason, got him drunk at a bar at Karkala on Tuesday July 12 afternoon. As night approached, he was persuaded and made to swallow sleeping tablets and they came to Byndoor. It was established with the help of Sastan toll gate CCTV footage that they came to Byndoor at about 12.30 am. The scene of the woman getting down from the car and paying toll was captured in the CCTV camera of the toll gate. They took the car near Ottinene at a deserted place and parked it there. They set fire to the car when the person who was sleepy was getting down from the car.
Sadananda and Shilpa who had boarded a bus to Bengaluru to abscond, returned to Moodbidri as the bus was stopped for repair. They were taken into custody when they arrived by bus to Karkala in the morning on Thursday July 14. People have appreciated the police who cracked the case in a day.
The operation was conducted under the leadership of Byndoor police circle inspector Santhosh Kaikini by PSI Pavan Nayak, Gangolli PSI Vinay Korlahalli, Nagendra, Mohan, Krishna, Sridhar, Chandra Gangolli, driver Chandrashekar, Sujith, Srinivas and Shantaram Shetty under guidance from Udupi SP Vishnuvardhan and directions from ASP Siddalingaiah and DySP Srikanth.