It will be recalled that a recent shocking event occurred in Navi Mumbai where the police on Tuesday disclosed the murder suspect Dawood Shaikh. Shaikh was apprehended on Monday in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old woman whose decomposing body was found near the Uran railway station, Navi Mumbai, last week.
After they committed the murder, Shaikh escaped to Karnataka but was later arrested from Shahpur, Gulbarga district in the neighboring state. The body of the deceased, a 28-year-old woman, Yashshri Shinde, was recovered yesterday.
Saturday morning, and the preliminary findings suggested that she was strangled to death in the aforesaid hours when she had taken half a day’s leave to go to her office at Navi Mumbai as an employee of Reliance Animation Ltd.
Navi Mumbai Assistant Commissioner of Police Deepak Sakore said that the composite aspect of the relationship between the victim and the accused is disclosed and investigated. Nevertheless, he said that the two were on speaking terms / were communicating with each other.
Sakore said Dawood lured Yashshri to meet him and killed her. The post-mortem report mainly suggested that Yashshri was murdered with the cutting weapon, It is still not clear as to why Dawood committed the murder; however, the police said that Dawood stated that he had invited Yashshri to discuss some issues and killed her when he saw her.
Yashshri’s father, Surendra Kumar, had earlier implicated Dawood Shaikh as the main accused and had lodged a police complaint against Shaikh in 2019 for harassing his daughter on the pretext of marriage under threat of dire consequences and therefore suggested that the murder was committed as a result of the rivalry.
Prince Miro, Saurabh Saha, Sonali Bhattacharya, Poonam Pandey, Former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya have joined the tire against the accused, demanding a stringent law against love jihad, met the family of the murdered woman and said that there should be a law against love jihad and provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act should be invoked in the case
The police are still on the search for the perpetrator behind the Navi Mumbai murder case and are still looking for the precise reason behind the gruesome act.
